My Mode of Thinking

Image via Wikipedia The question that naturally comes to mind as the referendum and other issues to do with the secession of the southern Sudan are coming to pass and the bad treatment the southerners suffered in the hand of the northerners for more than half a century is the fact that the south and north belonged to different religious affiliations. The scenario may be used then as the theoretical fate of the non-Muslims living in a state of a “hard-line Islamism” to use the cliché of Harry Verhoeven in his guardian.co.uk article Northern Sudan at a deadly crossroads in which he insinuated the above where he said “ The Sudanese people have rejected hardline Islamism and returning to centralisation and sharia is likely to hasten the demise of al-Ingaz through a violent disintegration of northern Sudan, as neither the people in the peripheries (Darfur, South Kordofan, Blue Nile) nor those in Khartoum would accept a monocultural, monoreligious "Arab" state ”.   This k...

Image by Getty Images via @daylife This topic was originally slated for last Sunday for its proximity to the time the date slated for the southern Sudan to cast their votes to either remain as part of Sudan as a country the mission General John Grang the first Sudanese rebel leader sacrificed his life for, or secede to form a country on their own. After last week’s digression, which lead us to touch on some general issues that has to do with symbolic presence of important African names and titles in Sudan and the political manipulations of the current Sudanese government, let us today try to look at what it means to the southerners decide their fate themselves today. 9 th January marks the most important date in modern history of southern Sudan for it came to put permanent stop to the about fifty years of war, poverty, humiliation, lack of education, embarrassing lack of social infrastructure and the general fate of second class citizenship of a whole people whose region produced ...

There are just too many things happening around me here in Sudan that I don’t even know which is supposed to be the topic of the day. I started writing about the serious cracking effect the southern secession left on the well being of northern Sudan. I suddenly realized that southern Sudan needs more attention from any serious African writer than the northern part of the country especially that the region has only recently seen the light of freedom and independence and has to deal with the hazy future of the oil, power and foreign interest games. But with that, I am most likely to postpone that issue to the edition of the next week in favor of the meeting that took place between the envoy of the Nigerian Arabic village, Ngala which include the Director in person of Professor Tijjani Al-Miskeen, the Registrar and a host of their staff members with the Director of the Center of Researches and African Studies, a branch of the International University of Africa in Sudan. It took pla...