Darfur

In recent years, the Darfur conflict experienced§unprecedented global media coverage that focused on§the dramatization of the conflict instead of a§serious analysis of its root causes, which are the§policies of underdevelopment, unequal distribution§of wealth, and undemocratic practices in Sudan since§independence. This book argues that in order to§understand the Darfur conflict, examination of the§State formation in the context of colonial effects is§important. Further, it argues that Darfur crisis in§itself illustrates the failure of the Sudanese§elite s ideology, and the colonial/eurocentric model§of nation-state that it is in place since§independence.Without assessing the colonial legacy§and its role in planting the seats of such violent§conflict, the alienated elite class, and the§inflicted policies of dependency upon newly§independent countries, we will do no justice to the§peoples suffering in Darfur and elsewhere. These§policies of colonialism that were based on divide§and conquer ; which didn t cease after independence§had allowed the Sudanese State, by acting as a client§State, to continue oppressing and marginalizing the§vast majority of the Sudanese people. In recent years, the Darfur conflict experienced§unprecedented global media coverage that focused on§the dramatization of the conflict instead of a§serious analysis of its root causes, which are the§policies of underdevelopment, unequal distribution§of wealth, and undemocratic practices in Sudan since§independence. This book argues that in order to§understand the Darfur conflict, examination of the§State formation in the context of colonial effects is§important. Further, it argues that Darfur crisis in§itself illustrates the failure of the Sudanese§elite s ideology, and the colonial/eurocentric model§of nation-state that it is in place since§independence.Without assessing the colonial legacy§and its role in planting the seats of such violent§conflict, the alienated elite class, and the§inflicted policies of dependency upon newly§independent countries, we will do no justice to the§peoples suffering in Darfur and elsewhere. These§policies of colonialism that were based on divide§and conquer ; which didn t cease after independence§had allowed the Sudanese State, by acting as a client§State, to continue oppressing and marginalizing the§vast majority of the Sudanese people.