Since independence in 1956 Sudan has endured six coups and about ten failed attempts. It has been plagued by genocide, famine and poverty. These seven books explain how and why Sudan went so horribly wrong
to be trapped in an endless cycle of bloody coups and counter-coups. Since independence in 1956 the country has enduredand about ten failed attempts, by some measures the worst record in Africa. The latest was the overthrow in October 2021 of a transitional civilian-led government by a military junta led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. Blessed with ample natural resources, notably
Since South Sudan won independence from Sudan in 2011 the former has claimed more attention, as it plunged quickly into its very own civil war. Recent texts on Sudan, therefore, are relatively rare. “Sudan’s Unfinished Democracy” is the best of them. It is the only book that deals in detail with the people’s revolution in 2019, led largely by women, that ousted the Islamist regime of Omar al-Bashir and led to the transitional government, which itself was overthrown.
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