Elsadig Elsheikh

Darfur: Domesticating Coloniality: the Failure of the Nation-state Model in Post-colonial Sudan Elsadig Elsheikh

In recent years, the Darfur conflict experienced unprecedented global media coverage that focused on the dramatization of the conflict instead of a serious analysis of its root causes, which are the policies of underdevelopment, unequal distribution of wealth, and undemocratic practices in Sudan since independence. This book argues that in order to understand the Darfur conflict, examination of the State formation in the context of colonial effects is important. Further, it argues that Darfur crisis in itself illustrates the failure of the Sudanese elite¿s ideology, and the colonial/eurocentric model of nation-state that it is in place since independence. Without assessing the colonial legacy and its role in planting the seats of such violent conflict, the alienated elite class, and the inflicted policies of dependency upon newly independent countries, we will do no justice to the peoples¿ suffering in Darfur and elsewhere. These policies of colonialism that were based on ¿divide and conquer¿; which didn¿t cease after independence had allowed the Sudanese State, by acting as a client State, to continue oppressing and marginalizing the vast majority of the Sudanese people.