Sudan: The Dawn of History of South Sudan and the Need to Write Our History

27 November 2011

Under the Arabs of Northern Sudan it was very difficult if not impossible for South Sudanese to write comprehensive accounts of South Sudan's history without falling into trouble with the authorities in Khartoum.

The book "The Problem of Southern Sudan" by Joseph Oduho and William Deng Nhial fell under the category of classified documents whose discovery in the hands of a southerner by the informers of the Arabs in the North or the South was likely to send someone to his grave.

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