Introduction

Francis A. Lees and Hugh C. Brooks

Chapter 1 in The Economic and Political Development of the Sudan, 1977, pp 1-12 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Geography and history have not treated the Sudan kindly. Years ago when the Turks, and later the Egyptians and the British governed the area, few of them disagreed — nor did the majority of the local inhabitants — that the Sudan was a strange place in which to live. Mostly arid, conquered by many, it is only recently that the Sudan has begun to offer a better life to its people. Today, most of its leaders are working to develop the country into a nation. How well they succeed will affect the fortunes of not only the seventeen million Sudanese but perhaps over one hundred million residents of Africa and the Middle East.

Keywords: Political Development; Slave Trade; Nile Basin; Nubian Sandstone; Extreme South (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1977
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-03275-4_1

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