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Governance and Conflict in the Sudan, 1985-1995: Analysis, Evaluation and Documentation, by Peter Nyot Kok. Hamburg: Deutsches Orient-Institut, 1996. 220 pages. Bibl. to p. 229. Appends. to p. 382. n.p.
Reviewed by Richard P. Stevens
Because this book is an integral part of a larger work, part of which was first published in 1993 as a series of essays that are referred to or quoted only when appropriate, the reader may be at a loss to understand the evolution of the Southern Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA), its various splinter groups and off-shoots, and the willingness of some of these groups to collaborate with the Khartoum authorities. In what is otherwise a very lucid presentation and analysis of events in the Sudan since President Ja`far Numayri's overthrow in April 1985, it is not at all clear why the southern Sudanese have failed over the past decade to confront the northern forces of hegemony with a unified voice.