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Title: | British Policy and the Accentuation of Inter-Ethnic Divisions: The Case of the Nuba Mountains Region of Sudan, 1920-1940 |
Author: | Salih, Kamal Osman |
Year: | 1990 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 89 |
Issue: | 356 |
Period: | July |
Pages: | 417-436 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Sudan Great Britain |
Subjects: | Nuba colonialism colonial policy indigenous peoples History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Ethnic and Race Relations |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/722375 |
Abstract: | This article focuses on the British imperial policy which was pursued in the Nuba Mountains region of the Sudan during the period 1929-1940. The policy was widely known as the 'Nuba Policy' and it followed almost the same line as that of the better known 'Southern Policy'. The main objective of this policy was 'to preserve an authentic Nuba civilization and culture as against a bastard type of Arabization'. The article examines the main obstacles to its achievement and considers its feasibility in an environment where ethnic loyalties were rapidly changing. Starting point for the article is the memorandum 'Some aspects of Nuba administration' by A. Gillan, the main architect of the policy. Through an examination of the policies with regard to administration, education, military recruitment and economic development, it is shown that the Nuba policy perpetuated the imperial pattern of manipulating ethnic identities followed by the British elsewhere in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Notes, ref. |