War of Visions: Conflict of Identities in the Sudan

by Francis Mading Deng

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The civil war that has intermittently raged in the Sudan since independence in 1956 is, according to Francis Deng, a conflict of contrasting and seemingly incompatible identities in the Northern and Southern parts of the country. Identity is seen as a function of how people identify themselves and are identified in racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious terms. The identity question related to how such concepts determine or influence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815717938
• ISBN13: 9780815717935
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.0"