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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 962.7043 EAN: 9781842779507 Edition: 2nd ISBN: 1842779508 Label: Zed Books Manufacturer: Zed Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: May 13, 2008 Publisher: Zed Books Release Date: May 13, 2008 Studio: Zed Books Related Items:
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 Rating: - Best Comprehesive Book on Darfur!!I purchased this book for my class on Conflict and Conflict Resolution at San Diego State. This book is very detailed giving all the background on Sudan the country, its different tribes and groups as well as all of the individuals who have held or are seeking power in Sudan. The book also highlights the regional players and their modivations such as Libya, Chad, Eriteria who are seeking to keep Sudan destablized for their own personal gain. The authors do an excellent ... Read More Rating:  - Essential readingThe 2008 edition of Darfur: A New History of a Long War, by Julie Flint and Alex de Waal, is an essential reading about the current conflict in Darfur. The book gives a short overview of the history of Darfur and its people - from independent sultanate, annexation by the Anglo-Egyptian condominium, colonial times, to Sudan's independence. Authors blame the British colonialists and Sudanese governments after independence for the lack of development in Darfur. They assert that Arab supremacy ... Read More Rating: - Short and excellentPeople professionally concerned with genocide prevention and Darfur recommended this short but outstanding book (there are quite a few others on the crisis) when I needed to supplement my knowledge quickly. Its 134 pages of condensed information are based on prolonged and detailed work in the region and with people who know it well. The complexity of Darfur and its crisis as well as its relationship to other regions of Sudan emerge with balance, but with a clear picture of the horrors being committed. It ... Read More Rating: - Swahili Time!This book is a valuable asset to any library. The only problem I had with this book is trying to read Swahili. I took Introduction to Swahili 101 at Oklahoma City Junior College, but I guess that just was not good enough. Rating: - Instructive look at DarfurThere are plenty of serious human rights abuses in Africa which Westerners, particularly American corporations and arms dealers have strong complicity in: the 4 million dead in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia under Meles Zenawi, Equatorial Guinea under Teodor Obiang, Chad under Idriss Deby, Uganda under Museveni. One can also mention the horrors of the neoliberal economic model which African governments have followed so studiously. But Sudan and Zimbabwe seem to take up 90 percent of recent Western ... Read More 
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