Indigenous African communities have knowledge and leadership systems as rich and complex as the continent’s history. However, the literature is often polemical, generalizes Africa, or lacks specificity in particular contexts. Indigenous African systems were sophisticated and pre…
This dissertation focuses on a history of the Nilotic Dinka of the Southern Sudan and integrates their experience into the wider literature of ancient, medieval and modern Sudanese historiography. Working from approximately three hundred oral interviews, published sources and th…
An ethnography based on research carried out between 2009 and 2010 in the vicinity of Bor Town, the capital of Jonglei State, in what was then Southern Sudan, this dissertation is primarily concerned with people's reflections on making agreements with one another during a period…
This thesis examines the impact of refugee camp education and repatriation policy on a rural Dinka community in South Sudan and what implications can be drawn from this impact to inform the larger national and international projects of education in emergencies and conflict-affec…
This dissertation is a study of the gender relations of displacement that are the result of the complex interplay between militarized conflict and development-induced displacement in southern Sudan. The dissertation specifically examines the shifts in gender perceptions and role…