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Images of Empire: Photographic Sources for the British in the Sudan.

Publication: African Studies Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-MAR-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Images of Empire: Photographic Sources for the British in the Sudan.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Images of Empire: Photographic Sources for the British in the Sudan. W. Daly and Jane R. Hogan. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2005. 391pp.

Everything about the Sudan seems anomalous: A peculiar name (country of the Blacks), an exceptionally vast and oddly located country with little human and natural resources and a complex identity torn between black Africa and the Moslem Arab world. Stereotypes about the Sudan, its language, its people, its African backwardness and Arab culture of racism and violence, which still endure, add to the bleak picture of the Sudan. What is happening in Darfur today unfortunately reinforces these not new and negative perceptions of the Sudan.

This scholarly work, which deals with the socio-political history of the Sudan during the Anglo-Egyptian rule, a period also labelled the Condominium period, is a major contribution to the imperial history of the region. This book, however, is...

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