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Description

1. xv, 269 pages; 23 cm

Summary

1. The elites -- whether political, military, or economic -- constitute a determinant force in state formation and the nation-building project in post-colonial transitions. The absence of a scientific understanding of the socioeconomic and political configuration of South Sudan has obfuscated the liberation struggle and generated ethnic nationalism and the emergence of a parasitic class that is completely alienated from the masses of the people. South Sudan, the highly hyped youngest state in Africa and the world, is in a deep social, economic, and political crisis characterised by a low-intensity civil war, immense suffering and material deprivation of the people. It has internally displaced hundreds of thousands of people who live in "protection of civilian" sites in major towns under the care of United Nations Mission in South Sudan. Three and a half million have crossed international borders to seek refuge in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya. The ruling elite, completely unperturbed by the deep humanitarian crisis and apparent near collapse of the state, clamour for power sharing. Together with foreign collaborators, they have enriched themselves and fuelled the war through the extraction and plunder of the country's natural resources. This book is a critical analysis of the socioeconomic and political failures of South Sudan's leaders who have plunged the nascent state into the abyss. --From back cover.

Subject

1. Since 2011
2. Elite (Social sciences) > South Sudan
3. Elite (Social sciences)
4. Ethnic relations
5. Politics and government
6. South Sudan > History
7. South Sudan > Ethnic relations
8. South Sudan > Politics and government > 2011-
9. South Sudan

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Elites, ethnic politics, and the stunted state -- The revolution that wasn't -- The civil war was not inevitable -- To fix South Sudan we must complete the national democratic revolution -- Epilogue. My journey to and from the SPLM/A-IO : a personal account

Call number

1. ReCAP 22-17242

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-269)

Author

1. Nyaba, Peter Adwok, author.

Title

1. South Sudan : elites, ethnicity, endless wars and the stunted state / Peter Adwok Nyaba.

Publisher

1. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Mkuki na Nyota, [2019]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-269)

Chronological term

1. Since 2011

LCCN

1. 2019352496

ISBN

1. 9987083668
2. 9789987083664

Research call number

1. ReCAP 22-17242