Scholarly Article
Self-determination is not the culprit: the password to unity in Sudan is democracy
Keynote Speech
Dr. Elwathig Kameir
kameir@yahoo.com
The Sudan Today: Challenges and Possibilities
The First Sudan Institute for Research and Policy Symposium
Franklin & Marshall College
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
10 November 2007
Self-determination is not the culprit: the password to unity is democracy
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Sudanese Experience of ESL in Canada: A Multiplicity of Voices
By Deepa Rajkumar
My paper is based on my research among people from Sudan in Calgary, Toronto and Ottawa. In this paper, I focus on their experience of the Canadian English as Second Language (ESL) policy. I argue that ESL requirements for Sudanese children and youth in Canada are policy practices that attempt to produce and reproduce the Sudanese as refugees and the Canadians as citizens; and that the incompleteness of this project is in large parts because of Sudanese knowledges, aspirations and strategies. Continue reading »
Cultural dillemas of Sudanese Canadian refugees
By Doyle Hatt and Deng Akol Kuot Leng
Exile, if it is of the right duration, can be beautiful and life-affirming. During the Second World War, thousands of British and Dutch children, alone, or in the company of their siblings and sometimes mothers, were sent to live with families in Canada to spare them exposure to the blitz and to Nazi occupation. And, notwithstanding the separations and stresses that were the very essence of this displacement, the social consequences that flowed from this temporary exile were in many cases positive and inspirational and have resulted in sentimental visits to the houses and farms where a few years of childhood were spent, back-and-forth visits to childhood chums, and lifelong exchanges of letters between those whom adversity briefly welded together in common purpose. Continue reading »
Sudan’s Jonglei Canal: The Imperial Intentions of the Second Digging
By Joseph Deng Garang
Presently, a big empty ditch, the Jonglei Canal has come at a steep price. The Jonglei Canal is synonymous with African politics of water. In 1978, this joint venture between Egypt and Sudan began with the help from France. Six years later, the project failed to reach its goal of finding water. Water has increasingly become the world’s most inevitable source of conflicts, especially in the 21- century. The problem, however, proves to be more serious in Africa. Despite the fact that the African continent boasts the presence of the River Nile, which exists as the “River of Life†thanks to its nourishing ability directed at serving hundreds of millions of people, animals and plants, water is still scarce. Continue reading »
