Description
No-one has said it better than Kwesi Prah. He writes that the ongoing war in the Sudan in general and Darfur in particular “calls into question our collective bona fides … as Africans, we appear to do little to bring these conflicts to a halt. We hardly even talk about them “… Our innocuous half-hearted efforts at conflict resolution makes one wonder whether we appreciate the nature and extent of our interests as Africans.”… Kim Heller. Political analyst and author of ‘No White Lies: Black Politics and White Power in South Africa’.
It’s an important documentation of the situation in the Sudan – Dar Fur/Kordofan subregions and a precursor of ‘what needs to be done’ to support the struggle of the Africans…
Peter Adwok Nyaba. Academic, Geologist, Noma Award Winner and Ex-Minister for Higher Education and Research, Government of South Sudan.
About the Author
Kwesi Kwaa Prah is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He was the founder and former Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS) based in Cape Town, South Africa. He has worked extensively across Africa, Europe and Asia researching and teaching Sociology and Anthropology in various universities. His books include; The Social Background of Coups d’etat. (Brazil 1964, Indonesia 1965, Ghana 1966) (1973), Essays on African Society and History (1976), Beyond the Colour Line (1998), African Languages for the Mass Education of Africans (1995), Capitein. A Critical Study of an 18th Century African (1992), The Bantustan Brain Gain (1989), Mother Tongue for Scientific and Technological Development in Africa (2000), The African Nation: The State of the Nation (2006), Reflections On Goldberg’s Variations on Africanist Themes (2017), Kromantsihene Before and After Garvey (2019) etc.
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