Article: The Western Bahr al-Ghazal under British Rule: 1898-1965.

In Sudan, as elsewhere, state-builders have tended to be centralisers, seeking to exert control over outlying regions and drawing their varied populations into an unequal encounter with the increasingly elaborate state apparatus. Inevitably, this process has been loaded in favour of those at the heart of the enterprise, who have been situated at the geographical centre of Sudan, with better connections to the world beyond its boundaries where fantasies about the abundance of the land excited imperial ambitions. Like a great highway, the Nile gave access to the country, opening it up to invasion and occupation from the north. In the modern era, this began with the invasion by ...

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