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Title:The British Southern Policy in Sudan: An Inquiry into the Closed District Ordinances (1914-1946)
Author:Mayo, David Nailo N.ISNI
Year:1994
Periodical:Northeast African Studies
Volume:1
Issue:2-3
Pages:165-185
Language:English
Geographic terms:Sudan
South Sudan
Great Britain
Subjects:separatism
colonialism
History and Exploration
External link:http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/northeast_african_studies/v001/1.2-3.mayo.pdf
Abstract:Many Sudanese scholars and politicians often cite the British Southern Policy and the Christian missionaries as the causes of disunity between northern and southern Sudan, the Arabs and the African ethnic groups, the Muslims and the Christians. This paper answers the charges levelled against the Southern Policy, a colonial policy designed to exclude Arabs from administration, trade and settlement in southern Sudan, and to mitigate the disharmonious relations between the North and the South, i.e. to protect the South from the North. The author argues that the Southern Policy did not divide the Sudanese people. The scandal of Arab-African relations can be traced back to modalities of invasion by the Arab-Islamic world and resistance by the indigenous ethnic groups. On the contrary, the Southern Policy had its advantages. It brought an end to slavery in the southern provinces, training and recruitment of the indigenous population in the areas of the military, civil administration, education, etc. became possible, and it helped eradicate the intra and interethnic conflicts, about which the government in Khartoum seemed not to bother. In most situations where Khartoum had the opportunity to mend the ugly past, after the abolishment of the Southern Policy in 1946, it instead made it much more ugly by turning the clock back 100 years and strengthening Arab hegemony. Bibliogr.
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