New Sudans

Wartime Intellectual Histories in Khartoum

Nicki Kindersley

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2025
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781009422390
• Subtopic: African History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Series information
• Title page
• Imprints page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Frontispiece
• Introduction
• 1 Dar es Salaam: Flight and the Fight for Space in Khartoum, 1988–1992
• 2 Building Marginalisation in the Displaced City
• 3 Community Space and Self-Defence
• 4 Alternative Education
• 5 Intellectual Work and Political Thought on the Peripheries
• 6 Akut Kuei and Wartime Mobilisation
• 7 Military Independence and Khartoum’s Warlord Communities
• 8 Return to the South, 2005–2011
• Conclusion: Intellectual Histories for Other Possibilities
• Bibliography
• Index