Regional devolution in the Southern Sudan 1972-1981

Type:

Book

Author:

Mom Kou Nhial Arou

Published:

1982

This is a study of Regional devolution granted to the Southern Provinces of the Sudan in 1972. It seeks to answer five basic questions: what was the basis of North-South conflict; why and in what way was it possible to resolve the conflict in 1972; what is the nature of the devolved system both in terms of the powers of Southern institutions and in terms of their actual roles in Southern and Sudanese politics; to what degree has devolution proved both successful in its objectives in resolving the North-South conflict and in providing efficient government for the South; and finally, is devolution to persist as a form of government in the Sudan. CHAPTER ONE briefly describes the geography, demography and colonial history of the Southern Sudan and shows that the South is fragmentary, culturally and physically, but also distinct from and largely isolated from the North. Those processes like education and economic devolopment, which might have brought about integration between the North and South, were impeded by the colonial policy of separate control of the two regions and the neglect of the development of the Southern economy, -which placed the southern elite in a weak position to defend regional interests as independence approached. CHAPTER TWO is concerned with the politics of the Civil War (1955-72), its background, evolution and the development of the devolutionary solution. It shows that the devolutionary solution was possible in 1972 because both the northern and south…

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