Marxism and Rural Decay: Hakura v. Janjaweed (Katib al-Shuna Book 1)

by Abdullahi Ibrahim

The book brings Marxism to bear on Darfur crisis in the Sudan. Unlike the catastrophe the southern Sudan went through before its separation from the country in 2011, in which identity politics reigned supreme, the Darfur calamity provided an opportunity for an analysis of its material basis. Land rights (hakura) got critically entangled with the racial conflict between Arabs and Africans symbolized in the literature by the marauding Janjaweed. The book takes issue with the Sudan Communist Party for losing sight of the hakura politics in Darfur by focusing inordinately on identity politics to help promote its opposition and alliances against Omer al-Bashir regime (1989-2019). In its exclusive focus on Janjaweed politics, the party failed to shed a Marxist light on the material basis of the crisis.

74 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 22, 2021