2008/04/19 by Guma Kunda Komey · 2 citations
Social Sciences · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #African history and culture analysis #Land Rights and Reforms #Political Conflict and Governance
paper · doi:10.1080/01419870701568940
openalex publication_date 2008/04/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
The current situation of indigenous peoples in the Sudan is the result of the independent state's adoption of land and other policies identical to those introduced by colonialists more than a century ago. The Sudanese state has not only unwittingly maintained some colonial coercive institutions and policies but it has introduced more aggressive ones and brutally deployed them against its indigenous peoples, particularly the Nuba. In the light of this, this paper attempts to demonstrate analytically how some historical and contemporary socio-political dynamics have continued systematically to deprive these indigenous Nuba peoples of their customary land, and to assess to what extent the recently concluded Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) has been successful in addressing the land question as one of the root causes of the recurring civil wars in the Sudan in general and in the Nuba Mountains in particular.