Social Science Research Council

Reading this brought the past four decades cascading through my memory. Arriving in Kosti Boys School in 1966 my first introduction to my colleagues on the staff revealed that almost all wore Western dress and taught in English across virtually the whole of the curriculum. However two, known as ‘mullana’, did not: they spoke no [...]

Abdullahi Gallab’s book has taken me back in time. Writing nearly twenty years ago I thought that Sudan could not be governed by any ideologically driven regime, and this book clearly shows both one such attempt and its failure. The question then is why not?
In part the answer lies in the nature of ideological rule [...]