Arabism, Africanism, and Self-Identification in the Sudan

Bibliographic Data

ID4253270
AuthorsMuddathir''Abd Al-Rahīm, Muddathir'Abd Al-Rahīm (corresponding author)
Year1970
Volume8
Issue2
Pages233-249
Publication date1970-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022278x00019649
OpenAlexW2098467177
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited2

Physically, culturally, and ethnically the Republic of the Sudan is a microcosm of Africa. Its achievements, problems, and potentialities are in many respects typical of those of other African or Afro-Asian countries-particularly the belt of 'Sudanic' states which runs across the continent from the Horn and the Red Sea in the East to the Atlantic Ocean in the West. Thus, like the great majority of Afro-Asian countries, the Sudan has been subjected to alien rule for considerable periods during its modern history; its existing boundaries, administrative institutions, and cultural outlook have been largely moulded by its colonial masters; it developed a nationalist movement whose primary objective was the achievement of independence; and, since the fulfilment of that objective, it has been faced with a host of problems, chief amongst which is the erosion of nationalism, in the sense of loyalty to the homeland as a whole, and the resurgence or development of a variety of particularistic tendencies, loyalty to which has in some cases equalled or even surpassed loyalty to the nationalism under whose banner independence was won

Colonialism · Development economics · French horn · Geography · Homeland · Independence (probability theory) · Loyalty · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society

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