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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 April 2012
Last spring, while Tunisians and Egyptians erupted in the most determined and optimistic political protest movements seen in two generations, southern Sudanese prepared to secede. And in July, after months of watching dramatic images from the demonstrators in Tahrir Square, the world was presented with pictures of a new country with a beautiful, colorful new flag, of thousands of people who had voted into existence the Republic of South Sudan. On Al-Jazeera, CNN, and BBC, interviews with southern Sudanese revealed the profound relief and freedom that these new citizens felt as they repeated the word “liberation” to describe their feelings in this heady moment of independence.
1 Some examples of these images can be found at www.aljazeera.com/inpictures/2011/07/20117914399440591.html (accessed 28 December 2011).
2 “Sudan's Government Says Powerful Rebel Leader Is Dead,” New York Times, 25 December 2011.
3 I have written about this more extensively in Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan and the Ottoman Empire (Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, forthcoming).
