Culture Of Sudanese Culture

Although there are obvious differences between the two, there are also many similarities. One similarity is the celebration of Christmas. Although Americans and Sudanese people do not celebrate Christmas the same, they still celebrate. Another similarity is how work oriented both cultures are. Both cultures were taught at a young age that they had to work to survive, which is very true. The Sudanese culture celebrates with a festival like celebration just like Americans do. With these similarities there are bound to be some differences. One difference is that the Sudanese people are more united then Americans are. They are always nice to each other and are constantly trying to help one another. The IRC director said "We place the older boys together in apartments to try to maintain the kind of support network that they developed throughout their difficult journey and while living in the Kakuma camp," (Merrill, 1). This is proof of how different our cultures treat each other. Americans are far from a support network. We try and tear each other apart because of sexuality, race, gender and other discriminatory factors. That is one thing that Americans could learn from the Sudanese culture. Another difference is that Americans take advantage of a lot of things, such as food, family, freedom and

The story of the Lost Boys of Sudan is one that provides the world with many examples of social interaction, some being violent and others being inspirational. Their journey from Sudan to Ethiopia and Kenya, then on to the United States for a better life for themselves and their families gives an insight into how certain cultures deal with and overcome adversity. Culture is the complex system of meaning and behavior that defines the way of life for a given group or society, in the case of the Lost Boys, the culture of the people of Sudan and the American society are analyzed. How the boys were able to continue on without their families to show them the way is almost a miracle. Over outstanding odds, the boys were able to prevail and

The Sudan Liberation Movement and the Justice Equality Movement took arms against the Sudanese government, which was later named “The War in Darfur”. Which sparked the anger of the government and sent their military to begin murdering many villages, that were non Arabs. In many accounts reported about 2 million were killed over 2 decades.Scarce resources played a huge role in the mass killings of Sudanese (non arab).

Students explore the experiences of people of Southern Sudan during and after the Second Sudanese Civil War.

Darfur is the western region of the African country of Sudan. Currently, the people of Darfur have been continually attacked by the Sudanese army and by proxy-militia controlled by the Sudanese government. Families are being uprooted and starved, children tormented and murdered by the thousands and women raped without punishment. Innocent civilians in Darfur continue to be victims of unthinkable brutality. Many people have become homeless and seek protection in refugee camps in Chad. Yet despite its outward appearance, Darfur has a vast ethnic diversity and a complex, ancient system of resolving conflict. Genocide has occurred in several places around the world, but in Darfur there are certain reasons why it

The Sudan is home to two civil wars taking place dating back hundreds of years. “The older of the two, pitting the Muslim revels from the south, has claimed 2m lives in the past two decades, and spurred 4m people to abandon their homes.”(Economist 11) Although the two sides in this old war are close to a peace resolution, a new insurgence has begun in the region pitting “Arabs” against the “black Africans”, in an effort to attract peace concessions from the Sudanese government just as the older rebels did years before. An uprising by rebel groups against government targets sparked this new war because they felt neglected by the Sudanese government. But the response of the government to the new revolt falls extremely short of peace concessions, and instead perpetuates an environment of violence, torture and depression. The government has given its own militia, the janjaweed, free reign to pillage, rape and kill black civilians in a futile attempt to squelch the revolt. This can be see as an “ethnic cleansing” in which the government feels that the killings of blacks will hopefully rid the country of the rebels given that the Darfur rebels are mostly black Africans. Thus, the Sudanese

British colonialism ended in Sudan in 1956 and from that point on there would be significant conflict within the state, one of the main causes was because of differences in religious beliefs. The North, and most of the state were predominantly Muslim while the South was Christian and a mix of other religions. After a long civil war, which ended in 2005, Sudan was divided and the new state of South Sudan was created in 2011; it is the UN’s newest member. This was deemed a major accomplishment; not only were the South Sudanese celebrating but the Americans and the UN were as well since it was believed that this would finally bring peace.

Well according to Freedom House , a website that accurately rates country’s human rights and freedom on a 1-7 scale, Sudan’s ratings are the worst possible. Their human rights is a 7/7, 1 is the best 7 is the worst, their civil liberties is 7, and their overall freedom is a 7. When your country is overall awful in human rights something needs to change. Freedom, political rights, and civil liberties are the difference between an underdeveloped and a developing country. Sudan, obviously, is underdeveloped. When Britain left Sudan, Sudan was lost. They had so many decisions to make and paths to choose. When a developed country has control of an underdeveloped country the developed country should at least try to help the underdeveloped country to become somewhat developed. Britain, the parent, left Sudan, their kid, on the side of the road and drove

The civil war was the caused by Khartoum’s failure to respond to the economic needs of a large region of Sudan, called Darfur. Thus, through neglect, a people were left economically marginalized and with a lack of political representation. Eventually, through desperation, a rebellion led mainly by non-Arab Muslim tribes was brought against the mainly

Military regimes that favor Islamic-situated governments have controlled national politics since Sudan gained freedom from Anglo-Egyptian co-rule in 1956. Sudan was entangled in two post-independence civil war amid the greater part of the rest of the twentieth century. These wars were based on the northern Muslims, Arabs economic, political, and social control of the more largely populated non-Muslim, non-Arab southern Sudanese. The first war ended with the 1972 Addis Ababa Agreement, which granted significant regional autonomy to southern Sudan on internal issues. (CIA 2015)

The Darfur Conflict took place in Sudan, Africa. Darfur is 170,000 miles; they have many volcanic high lands. They can get heavy rain fall. “(1)”The Marrah Mountains are one of their famous mountains in Darfur.”(1)” It was started by the government hitting a military base in 2003.”(3)” Before the military base hit the government was having some environmental issues. They didn’t have enough natural resources for their people. The government had a lot of food and water shortages. The Darfur conflict was then put in the arms of the Janjaweed. These people were Arabs. They thought that they had to cleanse the community of any non-Arabs people. The government agreed and the people fought back. This was the start of the civil war in Darfur.

Sudan is a country in which had been affected with a history of civil wars, inhumane acts, and genocide. The Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and Justice and Equality movement began to attack government targets in early 2003, accusing the president of Sudan, Khartoum of oppressing Non-Arabs. The government reacted with a campaign of ethnic cleansing. This resulted in over 400,000 deaths and hundreds of villages destroyed, wells were poisoned, live stocked was killed and millions of people sent to camps. The Janjaweed were forced by Sudan to attack their villages, the Janjaweed militias raided hundreds of villages throughout Darfur. Over 400 villages and ⅓ of Darfur’s people have fled. More than 100 people die everyday, five thousand people die every month. The Sudanese government denies any connection with the Janjaweed, because they are the ones who are responsible for such inhumane actions.

The politics are way different over there than here. Executive authority is held by only one person, Omar al-Bashir, who is the president, the prime minister, head of state, head of government, and the commander in chief of the armed forces. Another thing that is different is their flag. It has three horizontal bands with red on top, white in the middle, and black on the bottom. On the left side of the flag, there is a green triangle that points to the right from the top of it. The red band means the struggle for freedom, the white means peace, light, and love, and black represents the people in Sudan. Their government type is a presidential republic. Their

From 1972 onwards, the government “usually ran Darfur through officials brought in from other parts of Sudan, mainly from Khartoum” (Darfur: Origins). What Britain did basically doomed Non-Arab Darfur to “a future as an underdeveloped colony of Sudan’s Arab-speaking Nile Valley heartland” (Darfur: Origins).

The origin of the war between these two regions goes back to the 1950s when the country, which was previously two separate nations, was made one after World War II by the west. Shortly after this union, Sudan was emancipated from England. 1983 marks the beginning of the violent relations between the North and South Sudan. The initiation of this conflict was brought forth by the Islamic Sudanese of the North, invading with military force the Southern Sudanese Christians . From 1983, it is estimated that at least two million people have been killed in the violent duration of this genocide, most of whom are of the Christian faith and lead non-violent civilian lives. Attention on human trafficking was brought into the international community’s scope with close proximity to the beginning of the violence as two professors from the University of Khartoum shed light on the subject. Ushari Ahmad Mahumud and Suleyman Ali Baldo learned about the genocide and enslavement being practiced on the Dinka people, a tribal group in the southern Sudan, and upon this discovery they dicided to investigate it further. What they found was that raiders from the north were killing the Southern Christian men and kidnapping the women and children to be sold into slavery. The most disturbing part of this discovery was the newfound knowledge that this had been going on for over two years. Professors Mahumud and Baldo