Sudan

The per capita food output for domestic consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa is in crisis. A debate now rages in the political economy of the region's agricultural development over the following questions: Are the indigenous land tenure systems the root cause of the crisis? Is land…

This research investigated the role and effect of government expenditure on the capital accumulation process in open economies. In particular, the dissertation analyzed whether or not government revenues raised, both at home and abroad, were used for consumption expenditures or …

This dissertation explored the Sudanese civil conflict from 1969 to 1985, focusing on the role played by the leadership in the resumption of civil conflict in 1983 between the people of southern Sudan and the government of Sudan. The analytical process focused on leadership-rela…

In this dissertation, I explore a different concept in program evaluation. There is little literature on using evaluation research as a tool for social justice. The Oppression Evaluation Approach I am introducing is about an alternative method in conducting program evaluation un…

Until about the early nineteenth century, the region that today constitutes Eastern Equatoria was an isolated region of Africa with little if any contact with the outside world. The isolation, however, came to an end with the opening of the White Nile to modern navigation in 183…

Sustainable development problems are a genre of multi-objective ill-defined problems. The scarcity of resources in developing countries adds to the convolution of these problems, which is rooted within many disciplines. Focusing on the energy sector development and its sustainab…

This dissertation analyzes the protracted conflicts of the Horn of Africa region, which embraces Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan, in terms of state, society, and the world order. In order to avoid overly abstract conceptualizations of the notion of state, this dissertation employs t…

Tillage has been the subject of discussion at many meetings of agricultural scientists around the world because it is an arduous operation and constitutes a significant part of the cost of producing a crop. For many years, farmers in the semi-arid areas of North Africa have beli…

Islam is thought of as a religion that hinders any type of development, creating a government based solely on religious philosophy. This premise is quite false. Inherent in Islam are modernizing elements, especially within the political sphere. One of the earliest issues to conf…

The Strength to Travel Together: Eritrean Experiences of Violence, Displacement, and Nationalism in a Global Network is a comparative, multiple site study that contributes to the understanding of the particularities of violence and displacement related to the Eritrean-Ethiopian …

This thesis provides a relatively comprehensive description of the verbal system of Logo, a Central Sudanic language spoken in north-eastern Zaire. Phonological, morphological, and syntactic structures are described, the latter two from a functional-typological perspective. Area…

This dissertation examines representations of Englishness in Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1928), Between the Acts (1941), Doris Lessing's The Grass Is Singing (1950), and Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North (1969), and argues that ideas of home/land are central to Englis…

The number of displaced persons has increased dramatically over the past few decades and is expected to continue to rise. By the end of 1999 there were believed to be between 32 and 38 million displaced persons worldwide (UN 2000, USCR 2000). Most of these people have been or wi…

This study aimed at examining media performance at a time when U.S. policymakers are uncertain as to what position to take in a foreign conflict situation that affects the national interest. The study departed from the argument by some mass communication scholars that Herman and…

Since the discovery of the A-Group culture in 1907, much emphasis has been given to A-Group relationships with the Egyptian Nile civilizations of Upper Egypt. As a result, very little discussion has been ventured about Sudanese interconnections or Eastern and Western Desert rela…

My Ph.D. dissertation attempts to provide an indepth investigation and analysis of the political, social, cultural, economic, and religious problems that led to the outbreak of the first civil war in the Sudan in 1955. It discusses the involvement of foreign missionaries and Sud…

Examples of modern buildings designed by architects that have gone unused, or used in unconventional ways, or extensively transformed by the inhabitants, are numerous. It is presumed that an understanding of the local cultural context, the pattern of space use, and the meaning a…

There are signs everywhere that the era of the nation-state is fading and nowhere is this clearer than in Africa, where its roots are shallowest. The awkward marriage of the 'nation' in the sense of an ethnic coalition and the 'state' as the principal source of political authori…

Why do some states hold onto territory no matter what the costs, while others allow secession with apparent ease? I argue that governing elites make calculations about territorial policy in one of two ways--by ideology or by contract. Ideological territorial policy results when …

In the last decade, the region of Darfur, Western Sudan, like other parts of the African continent, has been exposed to waves of dry seasons that affected its farming system by transforming its fertile lands into an enormous desert. People starved to death, some of them fled to …