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Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in north-east Africa. These volumes provide an interdisciplinary account of the nature and significance of ethnic, religious, and national identity in north-east Africa. Case studies from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya illustrate the way that identities are formed and change over time, and how local, national, and international politics are interwoven. Specific attention is paid to the impact of modern weaponry, new technologies, religious conversion, food and land shortages, international borders, civil war, and displacement on group identities. Drawing on the expertise of anthropologists, historians and geographers, these volumes provide a significant account of a society profoundly shaped by identity politics and contribute to a better understanding of the nature of conflict and war, and forms of alliance and peacemaking, thus providing a comprehensive portrait of this troubled region. ... Read more

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An excellent focus on land, people, and politics
Exploration Of Africa: Sudan adds to the Chelsea House 'Emerging Nations' series, providing focus on African explorations and history. Harmon's focus on the Sudan reveals the history of the country, from life before the arrival of white settlers to changes which occurred after. An excellent focus on the land, people and politics of the area. ... Read more

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Chapters: Great Chagos Bank, Mandera Triangle, Sudan, Egmont Islands, Blenheim Reef, East African Mountains, Colvocoresses Reef, Geography of the British Indian Ocean Territory, Eagle Islands, Speakers Bank, Baxio Predassa, Pitt Bank, Danger Island, Benares Shoals, North and East Island Group, Three Brothers, Equatorial Africa, Owen Bank, Victory Bank, Cauvin Bank, Wight Bank, Nelsons Island, Centurion Bank, Ganges Bank, Swahili Coast, Ile Takamaka. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 61. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Sudan, from the Arabic bilâd as-sûdân (البلاد السودان) or "land of the Blacks" (an expression denoting West and Central Africa), is a geographic region stretching from West to Eastern Africa. The phrase "The Sudan" is also used by some to refer specifically to the modern-day country of Sudan, the savanna of which forms much of the larger region. The Sudan extends in a band across Africa from Mali (formerly known as French Sudan when it was a French colony) in the west to the western edge of the Ethiopian Highlands in the east. To the north lies the Sahel, a more arid Acacia savanna region which in turn borders the Sahara desert, and to the east Ethiopia (called al-Ḥabašah in Arabic). The grass in the Sudan is longer than in the Sahel, and because the region receives more rainfall than the Sahel it is more suitable for farming. The region is divided by the Cameroon Highlands into eastern and western halves. To the south of the western part is the Guinea forest-savanna mosaic. To the east in Sudan are the Sudd flooded grasslands, and to the south the Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1606191 ... Read more

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This unique bibliography provides a comprehensive survey of the literature relating to the many political, cultural, economic, and developmental aspects of the Nile. Numerous disciplines are covered, including geography, history, anthropology, and medicine; travel literature; planning and project literature produced by government bodies, international agencies and consultancy firms; and literature on basin-wide planning, water agreements, and water-need assessments for sectors and countries. If the Nile basin countries are to pursue cooperation and development successfully, dissemination of information about the river to all countries is crucial. The Nile: An Annotated Bibliography is a major contribution to achieving that end
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Sudan: The Land and the People presents the whole of Africa's largest country. Nearly one-third the size of the United States, Sudan sprawls over more than one million square miles. Here for more than a thousand years Arabs and Africans have collided and blended to produce people who share a turbulent history and rich cultural heritage. Arab and African alike divide into tribes. More than 350 unique languages, customs, and artistic traditions combine to form the ethnic patchwork of Africa's most diverse country.Internatonally renowned photographer Michael Freeman traveled the lenght and breadth of Sudan to capture these extraordinary photos of modern Sudan.

Sudanese diversity begins with its geography. Deserts, salt-washed seacoast, riverine and forest lushness, rock and hill and dry wash, lake and stream, rapids and cascades all catch the eye and challenge human resource. Sudan's richness is not only in its water, minerals, and oil, but in its ethnic and cultural mixture. Its promise lies in a durable end to conflict through acceptance of its plurality and diveristy to realize prosperity for an entire region. ... Read more

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Review of Sudan: The Land and the People
This is an excellent book on the history and people of Sudan.There are beautiful pictures.It, however, seems to be promoting a unified Sudan, which does not seem to be the best solution.Having been there two months ago, it seems that an independent Southern Sudan government is a much better solution.Hopefully, the referendum in January, 2011 will go through and the people of Southern Sudan, who are much different, socially, and in religion and culture, from those in Northern Sudan, will be able to finally have their independence.Otherwise, this is a great book, although very expensive.

wonderful photography collection
I love this book because it shows the diversity of Sudan - not just famine, war and poverty (of which there is plenty in Sudan) but the richness of the culture of this vast country. I have shared it with local communities in Sydney, Australia, where we have lots of people from Sudan and it shows people where these Sudanese are coming from and why they are here.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Juba is a city in Sudan, the regional capital of Southern Sudan and the capital of the Sudanese state of Central Equatoria. In 2005 its population was 163,442. Based on analysis of aerial photos, the best estimate of several donors working in Juba estimate the 2006 population at approximately 250,000. The 5th Sudan Population and Housing Census took place in April/May 2008 but the results were rejected by the government of Southern Sudan Juba is one of the fastest growing cities in the world and is developing very rapidy due to oil money and the Chinese coming for work and development. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sudan is a country in northeastern Africa. It is the largest country in Africa, and the Arab World, and tenth largest in the world by area. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, Kenya and Uganda to the southeast, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west and Libya to the northwest. The world's longest river, the Nile, divides the country between east and west sides. The people of Sudan have a long history extending from antiquity, which is intertwined with the history of Egypt, with which it was united politically over several periods. After gaining independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956, Sudan suffered a civil war, lasting 17 years, subsequently followed by ethnic, religious and economic conflicts between the Northern Sudanese (with Arab and Nubian roots), and the Christian and animist Nilotes of Southern Sudan. ... Read more

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Soil erosion has been recognized as a global threat against the sustainability of natural ecosystem. Erosion Modelling Under Different LandUse Management Practices is theresearch work carried out at the University of Western Sydney (UWS), to assist incombating against this threat. This research work is devoted in addressing the soilerosion issues associated with urban construction activities. The Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) was employed in this researchwork and the parameters associated with the model were calibrated. This model waschosen for calibration, as it has been proven as an easy to use tool yet providingreasonable result. Validation of the model was also carried out with an independentdata set. Large-scale rainfall simulators developed at UWS were used for rainfallsimulation at two sites with diverse soil types: dispersive clayey soil at Penrith andhighly permeable sandy soil at Somersby, both in New South Wales (NSW). 30 mins duration rainfall intensities with AverageRecurrence Intervals (ARIs) ranging from one year to 10 year were applied to generate artificial rainfall. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Political Geography, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Countries in Our World focuses on the countries that shape and influence our modern world. Each book examines physical features, daily life, industry, media, leisure and much more. Each title in Countries in our World is a mine of useful information ideal for school and project work. ... Read more

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This research seeks to understand the management ofnatural resource conflicts in the Savannah belt inSudan, focusing on the interaction betweenindigenous and central governmental conflictmanagement mechanisms. By analyzing the variousactors' perceptions, interests and needs regardingdifferent conflict management mechanisms, the studyaims to indicate conflict management mechanismsappropriate to the Savannah region in Sudan.Conceptionally, the research explores howapproachesfrom legal pluralism and conflict transformationcanbe synthesized and adapted to a different culturalsetting to analyze how to mitigate environmentalconflicts. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abyei ist ein Distrikt im Süden des sudanesischen Bundesstaates Gharb Kurdufan (West-Kurdufan), dessen Hauptort ebenfalls Abyei heißt. Die Einwohnerzahl von Abyei wurde 2003 auf etwa 34.000 geschätzt[1]. Diese Zahl stieg nach Abschluss des Friedensabkommens 2005 durch Rückkehrer aus anderen Landesteilen und dem Ausland deutlich. Das an Erdöl reiche Gebiet von Abyei ist zwischen Nord- und Südsudan umstritten. ... Read more

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Memories of seven campaigns : a record of thirty-five years' service in the Indian medical department in India, China, Egypt, and the Sudan (1895) ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Journal, published by Royal Geographical Society on November 1, 1994. The length of the article is 7183 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: The nature and history of flooding problems at Khartoum since the early nineteenth century are examined using archival flow and river height records and historical documentary sources, putting the 1988 floods into historical perspective. Three genetically distinct types of flooding are identified: Nile floods; flooding of local ephemeral watercourses; and flooding of streets and houses by urban run off. The magnitude and frequency of Blue Nile floods has declined with the recent reduction in rainfall over Ethiopia. The 1988 Nile floods were minor in comparison to the 1946 flood and several in the late nineteenth century, when flooding was particularly frequent and severe. The 1988 floods mainly comprised overflows of local watercourses and widespread street flooding, both as a result of an exceptional 200-millimetre rainstorm over the Khartoum area. A recent decline in frequency of large rainstorms has been offset by a greater susceptibility to floods as a result of increased human occupation of flood-prone sites, inadequate urban drainage and increased run off coefficients. If the present dry conditions in the Sahel were to be replaced by the wetter climate of the late nineteenth century, Khartoum would face severe flooding problems.

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Title: Flood frequency and impacts at Khartoum since the early nineteenth century. (sudanese capital)
Author: R.P.D. Walsh
Publication: The Geographical Journal (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 1994
Publisher: Royal Geographical Society
Volume: v160Issue: n3Page: p266(14)

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The Horn of Africa has in recent years sadly become known to the rest of the world principally as a region of war, poverty and famine -- as the harrowing scenes reported in the mass media confirm only too vividly. This timely book draws together major contributions from some of the world's leading experts in an analysis of the political and economic dimensions of the region as a whole. Advocates and opponents discuss the central theme: the actual and potential break-up of these formerly unitary states. In less than five years, the three major countries of this strategically important area -- Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia -- have undergone fundamental political change. In Sudan, a coup brought an Islamic fundamentalist regime to power, strengthening calls from the non-Arab southern Sudanese for independence. The recent independence of Eritrea has effectively blocked Ethiopian access to the sea and has encouraged further secessionist movements throughout the former Ethiopian empire.The formation of the independent republic of Somaliland followed the military defeat of President Siad Barre; US -led military intervention now seems likely to prolong the civil war in the south and delay the formation of a national government. Students and researchers of geopolitics, international relations, and African and Arab/Muslim affairs will welcome this book as an authoritative contemporary account of recent and current developments in this fascinating and important region. Charles Gurdon is Project Director of the Geopolitics and International Boundaries Research Centre at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. This book is intended for. ... Read more