New Sudans: Wartime intellectual histories in Khartoum

Kindersley, Nicki ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3220-5302 2025. New Sudans: Wartime intellectual histories in Khartoum. African Studies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 10.1017/9781009422383

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Abstract

Over a million southern Sudanese people fled to Sudan's capital Khartoum during the wars and famines of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. This book is an intellectual history of these war-displaced working people's political organising and critical theory during a long conflict. It explores how these men and women thought through their circumstances, tried to build potential political communities, and imagined possible futures. Based on ten years of research in South Sudan, using personal stories, private archives, songs, poetry, photograph albums, self-written histories, jokes and new handmade textbooks, New Sudans follows its idealists' and pragmatists' variously radical, conservative, and creative projects across two decades on the peripheries of a hostile city. Through everyday theories of Blackness, freedom and education in a long civil war, Nicki Kindersley opens up new possibilities in postcolonial intellectual histories of the working class in Africa.

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Authored Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > History, Archaeology and Religion
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISBN:	9781009422383
Last Modified:	03 Mar 2025 12:50
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/176238

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