This is the dramatic political history of the makings of Southern Sudan, opening in 1898 with colonialism, through to resistance from the 1950s and then self-autonomy, ending in 1983 with the college of Addis Ababa peace agreement. This is the first academic treatment of the subject, authored by Lam Akol, the well-known Southern Sudanese academic and politician who is now Minister of Foreign Affairs for Sudan, appointed following the Naivasha Peace Agreement of 2005.
