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The political history of the 1956–69 period was dominated by one central characteristic: political influence and authority rested with those social groupings which had benefited from the distribution of resources under the Condominium. As might be expected, therefore, those who framed government policy were not inclined to undertake a radical reformation of the country’s socio-economic structure. The two kinds of imbalance or inequality which had become prominent under the Condominium — differentiating both regions of the country and social groupings within it — continued and, indeed, became more marked.
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P. Bechtold, ‘Parliamentary Elections in the Sudan’, unpublished PhD thesis, Princeton University, 1968, pp. 200–4.
J. Howell, ‘Political Leadership and Organisation in the Southern Sudan’, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Reading, 1978, p. 122.
For a full exposition of the factors behind the growing spirit of unrest see Government of Sudan, Report of the Commission of Enquiry into the Southern Sudan Disturbances during August 1955 (Ministry of the Interior, Khartoum, 1956).
The text of the whole broadcast can be found in Umsalama Mohamed Salih, ‘The Military in Sudanese Politics’, unpublished MA thesis, University of Khartoum, 1974, pp. 293–5.
Given in full in Muhammad Sulaiman, Al-Yasar al-Sudani fi ‘Ashrah ‘Awam 1954–64 (Maktabah al-Fajr, Wad Medani, 1967, pp. 358–9.
See J. Oduho and W. Deng, The Problem of the Southern Sudan (Oxford University Press, 1963), p. 35.
O. Albino, The Sudan: A Southern Viewpoint (IRR, London, 1970), p. 44.
R. First, The Barrel of a Gun (Allen Lane, London, 1970), pp. 246–60.
Ibrahim Muhammad Haj Musa, Al-Tajrubah al-Dimoqratiyah wa Ta-tawwur Nuzum al-Hukm fi al-Sudan (Matba’ah al-Ahram, Cairo, 1970), p. 291.
Quoted in Sadig El Rasheed, ‘The Experience of Public Industrialisation in the Sudan’, in Ali Mohammed El Hassan (ed.), Essays on the Economy of Sudan, vol. 1 (ESRC, Khartoum, 1977), p. 84.
Government of Sudan, The Ten Year Plan of Economic and Social Development, 1961/2–1970/1 (Government Printer, Khartoum, 1962).
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Niblock, T. (1987). The Dynamics of Post-independence Politics, 1956–69. In: Class and Power in Sudan. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08836-2_6
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