Lost nationalism : revolution, memory and anti-colonial resistance in Sudan /

Winner of the African Studies Association 2016 Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize A lively account of the 1924 Revolution in Sudan and the way in which the colonial situation has affected its representation, a case in point in the histories of nationalist anti-colonial movements in Africa and the Middle E...

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Main Author: Vezzadini, Elena (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Woodbridge : James Currey, 2015.
Series:Eastern African studies (London, England)
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Introduction: Nationalism and Memory, A Lost Revolution
  • PART 1: THE NATIONALIST MOVEMENT IN SUDAN 1919-1923: Transnational Perspectives
  • Rethinking Nationalism in Colonial Sudan
  • The Spring of the Colonial Nations
  • PART 2: THE REVOLUTION OF 1924: Organization of the Movement and its Spread to the Provinces
  • The 1924 Revolution
  • The White Flag League: The Structure of the Nationalist Movement
  • 1924 in Port Sudan and El Obeid
  • PART 3: IDEOLOGY AND STRATEGIES
  • "The word is for the Nation alone": Telegrams, Petitions and Political Writings
  • A Community of Protesters: Symbols, Songs and Emotions
  • PART 4: THE 1924 Protesters: Reconsidering Social Bonds after the First World War
  • The Sociology of Colonial Education and the 1924 Insurgents
  • A Military Elite: the Army in the 1924 Revolution
  • "I was very famous in suq al-'arabi": Nationalism and Sudanese Workers
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue: The Colonial Gaze, History and the Archives
  • Appendix 1: Telegrams of the White Flag League and other protesters
  • Appendix 2: Sources on members of political associations in 1924.