Gallab book is focal point for global discussion on Sudan

African Arguments Online, a moderated website hosted by the Royal African Society and the Social Science Research Council, is using ASU Professor Abdullahi Gallab’s new book “A Civil Society Deferred: The Tertiary Grip of Violence in the Sudan” as the launch point for an international discussion on the failure of Sudanese statehood. The first four reviews by scholars from the United States and England have been shared on the organizations' joint site “African Arguments,” and in the special interest blog “Making Sense of Sudan,” the leading site for critical online debate and discussion about Sudan. 

Gallab is assistant professor of African and African American studies in the School of Social Transformation, with a shared appointment in religious studies in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. He brings to his academic scholarship an on-the-ground perspective gained during years of work as a journalist in the Sudan.

"A Civil Society Deferred," published in August 2011 by University Press of Florida, chronicles the socio-political history and development of violence in the Sudan and explores how it has crippled the state, retarded the development of a national identity, and ravaged the social and material life of its citizens. It offers the first detailed case studies of the development of both a colonial and postcolonial Sudanese state and grounds the violence that grips the country within the conflict between imperial rule and a resisting civil society.