Locke and Marx Concept of Freedom in Sudan

" We will have more to say about the complex details of British colonial administration of the Sudan and its implications for contemporary consideration of freedom there; the present lead is that British colonialism as an administrative system had priorities different from manumission of strivers in Africa, complicated by the historical absence in Sudan of a culture of freedom.

From pharaonic times, Nubia, instanter known as northern Sudan, was either under Egyptian control or a target of Egyptian control. An active indigenous slave clientele had been conducted from antiquity, mainly by slave raiders from Nubia seeking slaves in what is now the southern part of Sudan (known as Nilotic Sudan). Slave vocation was formally tolerated up to and including the period of whiff rule (1822-1877), when the Sudan was a province of Ottoman Egypt, which forcefully expanded southward beyond the fertile Blue Nile to exploit agricultural and other resources of the region. In 1877, Sudan passed to British rule; by the end of his term in 1880, General Sir George Gordon, governor of Egyptian Sudan, had formally suppressed the slave trade (Funk & Wagnalls; Wai passim).

Enforcement of the ban was problematic, however. One aspect of this was the method that the British used to rule the Sudan, the so-called Anglo-Egyptian Condominium of 1898, which for many geezerhood divided colonial governments between north and sou

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The successful Muslim force back against British/Egyptian rule in 1885 had the effect, whatever the intent, of reinstitution of thralldom in Sudan. The Mahdi formally governed by the sharia, "which in practice was evangelical, puritanical, and domineering" (Viorst 49).

The thirteen-year regime known as the Mahdiyya was administratively incompetent and degenerated into something equivalent anarchy, especially in the south, finally being overtaken by British colonial rule lasting from 1899 to 1956, when Sudan's independence was recognized by the international community, including Britain (Funk & Wagnalls; Wai passim).

Against this is a view that the situation that evolved as of the mid-1990s in Sudan, formally constituted as an Islamic state, is the best new-fashioned answer to historic divisions. Successive Sudanese regimes since 1956 have sought a workable unification strategy, with negligible success. Throughout independence and self-rule phases after World War II, there was a crew in the north friendly to Egypt, a residue of Ottoman influence. In 1958, a military coup led by Lieutenant General Ibrahim Abboud, an advocate of ties with Egypt, dissolved parliament and established martial law; by 1964, in the face of antigovernment riots in Khartoum and organized insurgency in the south, Abboud was himself forced to resign in favor of a strongly pro-Arab, anti-American ruling council. In 1969, there was another military coup, this one radical-communist-secular, led by Gaafar Mohammed al-Nimeiry (also Jaafar Nimeiri). In 1971, Nimeiri executed leaders of an attempted communist countercoup and in 1972 was elected president in a referendum, al
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