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Title:The Road to Jouda
Author:Ali, Taisier M.
Year:1983
Periodical:Review of African Political Economy
Volume:10
Issue:26
Period:July-September
Pages:4-14
Language:English
Geographic term:Sudan
Subjects:farmers' associations
peasant rebellions
agricultural projects
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Development and Technology
Politics and Government
Labor and Employment
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056248308703525
Abstract:From the early 1950s, tenant farmers in Sudan sought to alter the arrangements governing their contributions to and returns from agricultural operations in government and private schemes, in particular through collective union activity. Repeated attempts by tenant farmers to gain formal recognition for their organisation from the colonial government, however, proved unsuccessful. Following the election of a transitional government in 1953, tenant farmers' hopes were raised and they intensified their efforts to obtain the new government's endorsement of their unions. As events were to show, however, the new government was neither able nor willing to grant any group (least of all the farmers) the immediate fruits of its victory. The collision of the conflicting forces of the tenant farmers and agricultural capitalists led to the tragedy at Jouda in 1956: cotton farmers on the Jouda private pump scheme went on strike and in the wake of state violence which was unleashed on the community in response to their action, over 300 tenant farmers were either shot or suffocated in overcrowded and poorly ventilated detention cells. The present article describes the tragedy and the events leading up to it, within the wider context of the relation between class conflict and the state. Ref.
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