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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 [...]

Manichaean Delirium: Decolonizing the Judiciary and Islamic Renewal in Sudan, 1898-1985 by Abdullahi Ibrahim.
Few have written in detail about the key institution of the Sudan Judiciary, its corps of professional judges, its management of the courts whose role has been the implementation of the laws of Sudan, whether colonial, post-independence, or Islamist.
The most [...]

It’s an unfortunate reality that books on Sudan by Sudanese authors—even those who have a wonderful English writing style, and who deal with their subject matter in a way that combines insight with accessibility—rarely get the attention they deserve. We should take a close look at Abdullahi Ibrahim’s recently-published history of the Sudanese judiciary: Manichaean [...]