| Abstract: | Characteristically, Southern separatism in the Sudan vacillitated between demands for local self-rule and the extreme of outright secession. In general, however, the call had been for some form of loosening up the political and legal bonds that united the South with the North. The author attempts to highlight the process by which the South moved from a variety of position to the claim for a separate identity or existence. He assesses the Addis Ababa Agreement of March, 1972 and concludes that this Numeiry experiment has helped to correct what was a truly appaling situation. Table, notes. |