Overview of Sudan

Module Research Resources: Resource created by the Understanding Sudan project.

Background Information

• Support for the Learner: What, Where, When, and Who - Sudan SearchA client interface with links to existing specialized resources is being created for teachers seeking additional resources to supplement textbooks; and for contextualizing objects in library and museum collections by identifying the objects in other collections that are most closely related.
• Chronology of Sudanese History up to 2000. Prepared by M. Saavedra for African American Studies 112B in 2000.
• Data Exchange Platform for the Horn of Africa. DEPHA provides geographic information data and services for the Horn of Africa region countries including Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan and Somalia. DEPHA was launched in 2002 to meet the strategic and emergency planning needs of the humanitarian and development community in this region.
• Map of Sudan
• Relief Web portal for Sudan. ReliefWeb is a specialised digital service of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
• Situation Reports from the Insitute for Security Studies Search on this page for "Sudan"
• Sudan resources and research. Michael Kevane's collection of research, links and resources on Sudan.
• Sudan: No Easy Ways Ahead. A 2010 report from the Heinrich Boll Foundation contains essays by leading Sudanese scholars and analysts of Sudan.
• The Sudan Open Archive Free digital access to contemporary and historical knowledge about Sudan. Includes much 'grey literature.' Developed by the Rift Valley Institute .
• United Nations Sudan Information Gateway
• Water in Sudan - From Aquastat. FAO's Information System on Water and Agriculture
• Ancient Sudan: Nubia. By Ibrahim Omer.
• Sudan page of the Institute for Security Studies The ISS is a regional research institute operating across sub-Saharan Africa.
• Political Resources links for Sudan (government, opposition parties, other links).
• Sudan Page on Africa South of the Sahara Web Site: An excellent resource created by Karen Fung, Stanford University's Africana Bibliographer.

Books for Teaching

• The Sudans: Which Way? ACAS Bulletin 86. November 2011. Collection of seven essays by top scholars offering different perspectives on possible paths for the peoples of the Sudan. Contextualizes with respect to issues of citizenship, race, democracy, gender, international relations, and peace.

Primary Resources

• Census - 2008. Data tables from the Census from the Sudan Central Bureau for Statistics.
• Census - 2008: Analysis - 5th Population and Housing Census in Sudan: An Incomplete Exercise. From the Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre, Geneva (Switzerland), February 2010.
• Household Demographic and Health Surveys. Copies of the 1989-1990 survey and the 2006 survey can be downloaded here.
• Sudanese Travels of Theodoro Krump This is an English translation of the Sudan portion of Theodoro Krump's Hoher und Fruchtbarer Palm-Baum des Heiligen Evangelij (Augsburg: Georg Schulter & Martin Happach, 1710). By Jay Spaulding, Professor of History, Kean University, NJ.
• THE IRONWORKING INDUSTRY OF PRECOLONIAL NUBIAN KORDOFAN an interactive website by Jay Spaulding of Kean University, NJ. It includes a draft translation of the most extensive eyewitness description of early Sudanese ironworking, that of the Austrian mineralogist Joseph, Ritter von Russegger in 1837.

Research Networks

• Sudan Studies Association (SSA)
• Sudan Studies Society of the United Kingdom (SSSUK)