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Travel Guides
History, Politics & Economics
People & Culture
Other Books &
Novels
Travel
Trail Guide to North & South Sudan
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
This guidebook is specifically
aimed at those people that are either moving to Sudan or going there for work
and business purposes, although it can just as well be used for those
independent travelers that want to explore the two countries. This travel guide
has plenty of information on visa requirements, transportation, archeological
treasures and on what to do and see.
Sudan: The
Bradt Travel Guide
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
The first comprehensive guide to
Sudan, that beyond troubled Darfur lies an extraordinary country, and a culture
of kindness to strangers. Discover the archaeological riches of Kush and Nubia,
scuba dive in the Red Sea, or relax on a Nile cruise through colorful Khartoum.
The City Trail Guide to Khartoum and the rest of
Sudan
(amazon.co.uk) - UK
Including a Fully Updated Section on
Exploring the Rest of the Sudan. Packed with invaluable tips on where to eat
and drink, what to see and do and how to adjust to Islamic customs. It also
comes with a comprehensive set of street maps and a fully revised section on
learning Sudanese Arabic, complete with freely-downloadable audio files.
Sudan Country Study Guide
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
Synopsis: Geography, history,
people, language, culture, traditions, economy, government, politics,
constitution, places to visit, info for travelers...
African Calliope : A Journey to the Sudan
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Edward Hoagland
Sudan Map by ITMB (Travel Reference Map)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
Distinguishes roads ranging from
primary roads to other roads/tracks. Legend includes international/provincial
boundaries, railroads, ferry lines, water/wells, dunes, international/national
airports, airfields (small crafts), ports, gas stations, border crossings,
points of interest, museums, archeological sites, wildlife reserves, nature
reserves, missions/churches, mosques, campsites/huts, hotels, rest houses,
hostels, oasis, diving sites, passes, coral reefs, National Parks. Includes
inset of Khartoum.
History, Politics &
Economics
Country Review, Sudan
1999/2000
(amazon.com) - USA
by Robert C. Kelly (Editor), Debra
Ewing (Editor), Stanton Doyle (Editor), Denise Youngblood (Editor)
up-to-date source for political and economic information
Inside Sudan: Political Islam, Conflict, and Catastrophe
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Donald Petterson
Gender Politics in Sudan : Islamism, Socialism, and the
State
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Sondra Hale
Focusing on the
relationship between gender and the state in the construction of national
identity politics in twentieth-century northern Sudan, the author investigates
the mechanisms that the state and political and religious interest groups
employ for achieving political and cultural hegemony.
1905-1907 Breasted Expeditions to Egypt and the Sudan; A
Photographic Study
(amazon.com) - USA
The Benefits of Famine : A Political Economy of Famine and
Relief in Southwestern Sudan, 1983-1989
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by David Keen
David Keen
argues that famines, such as that which devastated the Dinka of Sudan in the
1980s, often have powerful beneficiaries within the affected nation, including
political elites and traders. Meanwhile, shortcomings in the manner of
international intervention, while contributing to famine, may offer significant
political and bureaucratic benefits for international donors. Famine is not
necessarily an apocalyptic natural disaster: it may have functions as well as
causes.
Between a Swamp and a Hard Place :
Developmental Challenges in Remote Rural Africa
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by David Chamberlin Cole, Richard
Huntington
In a remote area of Sudan, the Abyei project embodied the
idealistic hopes for development aid of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The
Harvard Institute for International Development was invited to assist the
leaders of the Ngok Dinka people in developing their homeland. David Cole and
Richard Huntington analyze the project’s successes and failures as the
region slipped toward civil disorder and inter-ethnic violence, and document
the continued relevance of the development principles which shaped this
effort
The Challenges of Famine Relief :
Emergency Operations in the Sudan
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Larry Minear (Contributor),
Francis Mading Deng
focuses on the two famine emergencies in the Sudan in
the 1980s - the great African drought-related famine of 1984-86 and the
conflict-related famine that afflicted the southern Sudan in 1988-91. Francis
Deng and Larry Minear analyze the historical and political setting and the
response by Sudan authorities and the international community.
Politics and Islam in Contemporary Sudan
(amazon.com) - USA
by Abdel Salam Sidahmed
Requiem for the Sudan : War, Drought, and Disaster Relief
on the Nile
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Millard Burr, Robert O. Collins
(Preface), J. Millard Burr (Preface
This chilling account is based on a
wealth of documents--never made pubic--from Sudanese government sources,
private and foreign governmental famine relief agencies, and international
media. In it the authors graphically recount how the attempts of international
and humanitarian organizations to provide food and medical relief have been
thwarted by bureaucratic infighting, corruption, greed, and ineptitude.
Slaves into Workers : Emancipation and Labor in
Colonial Sudan
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Ahmad Alawad Sikainga
Native Sudanese Sikainga (history, Ohio State U.) describes the efforts of the
British colonial government to transform slaves into wage workers after the
gained possession of Sudan in 1898.
Sudan :
State and Society in Crisis
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by John O. Voll (Editor)
Sudan in Crisis : The Failure of Democracy
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by G. Norman Anderson
War of Visions : Conflicts of Identities in the Sudan
(amazon.com) - USA
by Francis Mading Deng
People & Culture
Dinka of the Sudan
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Francis Mading Deng
Written
by the son of the late Paramount Chief of the Ngok Dinka, this ethnography
provides a rich, well-balanced view of Dinka life in the Sudan. Always in
direct contact with a hostile environment, deprivations, and troubles, the
Dinka now form part of modern Sudan but remain among the least touched by
modernization. Their pride and ethnocentrism are important factors in their
conservatism and resistance to change. A rare view of these "Lords of Men" is
provided by a writer who is both an insider and a professional researcher and
interpreter.
The Ancient African Kingdom of
Kush
(amazon.com) - USA
by Pamela F. Service
A Family in Sudan (Families the World Over)
(amazon.com) - USA
by Judy Stewart
Presents the
life of a family living in a small village in Sudan, describing their work,
eating habits, school, religion, games, and interaction with relatives and
friends
Family Life in Sudan
(amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Mohamed Smith, Margaret Smith
Holymen of the Blue Nile : The Making of an
Arab-Islamic Community in the Nilotic Sudan, 1500-1850
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Neil McHugh
Explores how
the institutionalized mediation of the shaykhs helped smooth the transition
from traditional Funji morals and politics to the Muslim social, economic, and
legal system as it gradually encroached on Sudan from the north and east.
(Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. )
Jacob's Children in the Land of the Mahdi : Jews of the
Sudan
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Eli S. Malka
Malka was born
in the Sudan in 1910; his father was that nation's chief rabbi from 1906 to
1949. Malka chronicles the Sephardic Jewish community's history from its
beginning in 1885 (when there were only eight families) to the late 1960s, when
the Jews left the Sudan for more hospitable countries.
Let My People Go : The True Story of Present-Day
Persecution and Slavery
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
Does worldwide Christian
persecution still take place? Author Cal Bombay maintains that it does, with
corroborating evidence taken from his personal journey thorough the corridors
of death and horror in the Sudan.
by Cal R. Bombay
The Lost Boys of Natinga : A School for Southern Sudan's
Young Refugees
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Judy Walgren
Far from media
images of Africa as safari adventure and famine, this photo-essay brings us
close to the experience of refugee children by focusing on the boys in one
school in the southern Sudan.
Wombs and Alien
Spirits : Women, Men, and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Janice Boddy
The Rashaayda Bedouin : Arab Pastoralists of Eastern
Sudan
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by William Young, Louise S.
Spindler (Editor), George D. Spindler (Editor)
Sudan (Cultures of the World)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Patricia Marjorie Levy
Illustrated with numerous color photos, these lucidly written texts cover
topics such as geography, history, government, religion, language, arts, and
food. Interesting chapters include discussion of women, dress, marriages and
gifts, and social responsibilities of Muslims.
Sudan : Ancient Kingdoms of the Nile
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Dietrich Wildung (Editor), Peter
Der Manuelian (Translator), kathle Guillaume, Dietrich Wilding (Editor)
Other Books & Novels
The Agriculture of the Sudan
(amazon.com) - USA
by Gillian M. Craig
The Clever Sheikh of the Butana and Other Stories :
Sudanese Folk Tales
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Ali Lutfi Abdalla, Kate W.
Harris (Editor), Elnour Hamad (Illustrator), Ali Lutfi Abdalla
Sudan in Pictures (Visual Geography Series)
(amazon.com) - USA
by Salah Khogali Sudan in Pictures
Ismail (Editor), Lerner Editors, Daniel Abebe, Lerner Publicat Department Of
Geography
Introduces the land, history, government, people, and economy of
the largest African country in area.
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