Sudan's Blood Memory: The Legacy of War, Ethnicity, and Slavery in South Sudan

A history of Southern Sudan, from pre-colonial times to the present.

Many societies worldwide possess oral histories and long memories, reaching back many centuries, particularly of wars and events of great trauma. Labeling them "blood memories" in this book, Stephanie Beswick presents a pre-colonial history of Southern Sudan, a region that, according to some, "has no history." Beginning in the fourteenth century, the book follows the region's largest ethnic group today, the Dinka, from thei...