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... another But the reality ofthe borderlands is different This is particularly so in the case ofthe societies of Western Bahr al-Ghazal and South Darfur The historical memories ofthe people of these ... final part ofthe report, consisting of Chapters 8, and 10, offers a historyof Sudan’s civil wars from the perspective ofthe enclave Chapter looks at the first civil war in the south, andthe turn ... on the remarkable and little-studied historical experience ofthe people of this part of western Sudan andthe survival strategies they have developed, here and as migrants in other parts of the...
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