The Southern Sudan by Dunstan M. Wai

Author:Dunstan M. Wai [Wai, Dunstan M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General, Political Science
ISBN: 9781135160333
Google: IXG4AQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-23T01:19:57+00:00

References

1 Khartoum Secret Despatch No. 89, August 4th, 1945, quoted by R. O. Collins, "The Sudan: Link to the North", in S. Diamond and F. G. Burke (eds.), The Transformation of East Africa (New York, 1966), pp. 386-7.

2 Letter of 16th December, 1946 from the Civil Secretary to the Governors of the Southern Provinces and others, quoted in B. M. Said, The Sudan: Crossroads of Africa (London, 1965), pp. 164-5.

3 The South comprises about one-third of both the population and the area of the Sudan.

4 See the full report of the Juba Conference in Said, op. cit., pp. 46-71.

5 Thus Ismail el Azhari, the first Prime Minister of the Sudan: "The Sudan should be one unit on the basis of the decision arrived at during the Juba Conference in June 1947." (Quoted in the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Disturbances in the Southern Sudan during August 1955 (Khartoum, 1956), p. 87.)

6 This fact has even been used to argue that since the creation of the Republic of the Sudan rests on no social contract with the people of the South, talk of Southern secession is inappropriate. Thus, "The Southerners reject charges of secessionism on the grounds that, since they were not party to the Cairo agreement involving Britain, Egypt and the Arab political parties of the Sudan, and providing for the country's joint independence, they are simply not bound by it." (Thomas Land in the East African Journal, June 1970, p. 46.) The principle employed here seems to be that one cannot secede from that to which one has never belonged.

7 See the previously mentioned Report of the Commission of Inquiry, p. 80.

8 Report, pp. Ill, 114.

9 The Marquess of Reading, speaking for the British Government, quoted in J. Oduho and W. Deng, The Problems of the Southern Sudan (London, 1963), pp. 32-3.

10 O. Albino, The Sudan: A Southern Viewpoint (London, 1970), p. 41. It might be worth noting here that alone among all the countries of Africa, the Sudan still has no constitution.

11 Albino, p. 42.

12 Morning News, Khartoum, March 29th, 1961, quoted in Albino, pp. 45-6.

13 For the main proposals and the resolutions of the Conference see M. O. Beshir, The Southern Sudan (London, 1968), pp. 88-97 and Appendices 16-19.

14 According to Albino, p. 72, the winning candidate in one of the Torit Constituencies obtained 30 votes, and in Kajo-Kaji 95.

15 Albino, p. 74. The assertion that Deng was shot by the Army is, however, denied by official sources who accused the Anya-nya.

16 There may be very few Southerners who are "socialists" in terms of the Nimiery Government's version of socialism. But many Southern leaders would probably subscribe to the conception of "African Socialism" as defined by President Nyerere of Tanzania.

17 For example, it takes the movement a minimum of 45 days to send a message from Yei in Equatoria to Renk in Upper Nile.

18 Robert Dahl, A Preface to Democratic Theory (Chicago, 1956), p. 98.

19 The Twelve-Man Committee which attemped to carry on the

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