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| Title: | The Southern Sudan Welfare Committee and the 1947 Strike in the Southern Sudan |
| Author: | Garretson, Peter P. |
| Year: | 1986 |
| Periodical: | Northeast African Studies |
| Volume: | 8 |
| Issue: | 2-3 |
| Pages: | 181-191 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Sudan |
| Subjects: | strikes 1947 nationalism History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Labor and Employment Economics and Trade |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/43660377 |
| Abstract: | The 1947 strike in the southern Sudan was a turning point in the growth of nationalism and the formation of a southern Sudanese consciousness. It was the first region-wide political initiative begun by southerners and it included many peoples in one movement. The strikes were basically of three kinds. The price of dura was the spark in the major urban centres, such as Juba, where the strike began in October among Sudan Medical Service trainees. They were followed by daily and casual labour. On the second day article II staff workers, the educated southern Sudanese, began to exercise effective leadership through the Southern Sudan Welfare Committee (SSWC), which had been formed in November 1946 'to watch [over] the interests of the southern staff'. In Yei, Tonj, Rumbek, Torit, and Aweil, sympathy strikes occurred and here, as in Wau, article II workers and the SSWC played a prominent role from the very beginning. In the third model, local considerations were more to the fore, and the SSWC, and article II workers played a somewhat smaller role. The strikes at Loka, Nzara and Kagelu and those threatened at Yambio and Kapoeta fit into this pattern. Notes, ref. |
