Sudan: The Land and the People by Timothy Carney

by Timothy Carney

The Land of Sudan captures the incredible diversity, beauty and potential of Africa's largest and most culturally varied country in hundreds of Michael Freeman's glorious photographs. Produced with the co-operation and support of both the government of Sudan and the Southern People's Liberation Movement, this book is the first ever to portray the whole of Sudan - north, south, east and west, muslim and christian - in one large-format volume.

Genres: Africa

Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Wendelle]

A great photography color book that manifests in full color the might, majesty, and extraordinariness of the rich culture, long history, and varied landscape of Sudan. It also provides a brief overview of the history of Sudan: stretching all the way back from the Paleolithic, to chiefdoms in the Neolithic; the Kerma culture of the Bronze Age; the kingdom of Kush, then the Kingdom of Meroe; interactions with ancient Egypt: the Christian kingdoms of Nobadia, Makuria and Alodia; their downfall and fragmentation to be succeeded by the Funj and Darfur sultanates; the rise of Muhammad Ali Pasha and his extension and subjugation of Sudanese through a slave trade; the Anglo-Egyptian convention of 1880 that finally put a stop to Egypt's slave trade of Sudanese; the British policy decision to curtail investment into the education and government bureaucracy training of Sudanese, to subdue their nationalist aspirations; Sudanese independence and the instability of a government prone to military coups and infighting between north and south.

[Ayen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sudanese approved! 👍🏿