The Azanian Sea

My colleague and fellow blogger Alex Thurston has a blogosphere rundown of commentary and stories on the South Sudan, the world's newes...

We, the Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU), meeting at our 16th Ordinary Session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 30 to 3...

Gentle readers, I appreciate your patience as The Azanian Sea has been a bit quiet due to my academic obligations. Studying Arabic is a ful...

Alex Thurston is a writer/blogger (among other things) on political and social issues in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa: "Sudan’s ele...

We have brought your attention to Ustadh Mahmoud before; here is a video of his statement before the court while on trial for charges of apo...

From Wikipedia: Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law. His specialt...

My friend and colleague Alex writes about contemporary politics in Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, Mali, Niger, Chad, Ethiopia and Somalia, to name...

Pambazuka - ACIJLP Condemns Sudanese government's practices regarding right of peaceful assembly

Pambazuka - Sudan is still the issue

Sudan's parliament has approved a controversial bill paving the way for a referendum on possible independence for the country's oil-...

by Alex de Waal from Making Sense of Darfur It’s an unfortunate reality that books on Sudan by Sudanese authors—even those who have a wonde...

One of the best documentaries about the Darfur conflict, Darfur's Skeleton moves beyond all the 'genocide' talk of 'experts...

Pambazuka - End repressive laws targeting women in Sudan Shared via AddThis

B.E: You make an important point about the different kinds of people involved in Islamic slavery. Of course, we are really looking at just...

Just finished Robert Collins long and rather turgid Shadows in the Grass: Britian in the Southern Sudan, 1918-1956 , with which, despite Col...