South Sudan: A New History for a New Nation (Ohio Short Histories of Africa)

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Africa’s newest nation has a long history. Frequently thought to be remote and isolated from the remainder of Africa, and on a regular basis associated with the violence of slavery and civil war, South Sudan has been an arena for a complex mixing of peoples, languages, and beliefs. The nation’s diversity is both its strength and a challenge as its people attempt to triumph over the legacy of decades of war to build a new economic, political, and national future.

Most latest studies of South Sudan’s history have a foreshortened sense of the past, specializing in current political issues, the recently ended civil war, or the ongoing conflicts within the country and along its border with Sudan. This brief but substantial overview of South Sudan’s longue durée, by one of the most world’s foremost experts at the region, answers the need for a current, accessible book on this important country.

Drawing on latest advances in the archaeology of the Nile Valley, new fieldwork in addition to classic ethnography, and local and foreign archives, Johnson recovers South Sudan’s place in African history and challenges the stereotypes imposed on its peoples.

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