Darfur: Colonial violence, Sultanic legacies and local politics, 1916-1956

The first in-depth account of Darfur's history during the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (from 1916).



This work engages with a fundamental question in the study of African history and politics: to what extent did the colonial state re-define the character of local politics in the societies it governed? Existing scholarship on Darfur under the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (1916-1956) has suggested that colonial governance here represented either straightforward continuity or utterly transformative ...