Gender, Race, and Sudan's Exile Politics Do We All Belong to This Country [Paperback]

Riveting with theoretically informed and empirically founded critical analysis of the futility of male-centered discourses and practices endorsed by leaders purportedly leading national liberation struggles and state-building institutions in Sudan and South Sudan.A timely book by a committed intellectual and professional academic and a must read for young African change agents striving to avoid historic setbacks of failed ruling elites in sub-Saharan Africa.Nada Ali's detailed, fine-tuned feminist analysis has opened my eyes to Sudanese women activists' years of deep theorizing and sophisticated strategizing. I urge anyone trying to make sense of the gendered politics of social movements, of nationalism or of contemporary patriarchy to read this smart, engaging book.This book analyzes the gendered and racialized discourses and practices of the Sudanese opposition in exile from 1990 to early 2000s. It uses intersectional analysis to explore the narratives of diverse womens organizations in exile and examine barriers and possibilities for transnational coalition building in contemporary Sudan and South Sudan.Gender, Race, and Sudans Exile Politics examines the gendered and racialized discourses and practices of the Sudanese opposition in exile through the opposition movements of the 1990s and early 2000s, and discusses the history through which these discourses evolved.The military coup that brought the National Islamic Front (NIF)now National Congress Party (NCP) to power in 1989 not only forced most political parties, trade unions, and activists in Sudan into either exile politics or underground activism; it also urged many of Sudans political forces and activists to rethink the meaning of belonging and of the Old Sudan. In the mid-1990s, this involved a rethinking of the relationship between religion and politics, acknowledging Sudans diversity, acknowledging the need to restructure Sudans economy and politics to ensure equal access and participation for tlÓ[