South Sudan: A New History for a New Nation (Ohio Short Histories of Africa)
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South Sudan: A New History for a New Nation (Ohio Short Histories of Africa)
“South Sudan: A New History for a New Nation is the best current political history of the world’s youngest nation by its most prominent living historian.â€
—Deborah Scroggins, author of Emma’s War
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Africa’s newest nation has a long history. Often considered remote and isolated from the rest of Africa, and usually 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 overcome the legacy of decades of war to build a new economic, political, and national future.
Drawing on recent advances in the archaeology of the Nile Valley, new fieldwork as well as classic ethnography, and local and foreign archives, Johnson recovers South Sudan’s place in African history and challenges the stereotypes imposed on its peoples.