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PRIZE – Elena Vezzadini’s book awarded the 2016 Bethwell A. Ogot Prize

CEDEJ Khartoum is pleased to announce that the African Studies Association awarded the 2016 Bethwell A. Ogot Prize to Elena Vezzadini’s book “Lost Nationalism Revolution, Memory and Anti-colonial Resistance in Sudan” (James Currey Press, 2015) for the best book on East African Studies.

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As the jury of the African Studies Association wrote:

“Lost Nationalism offers a history of a formative yet largely forgotten event, Sudan’s 1924 Revolution, in which insurgents from the ‘White  Flag League’ attempted to overthrown the British colonial state in the name of unity with Egypt. Vezzadini connects this event to a host of regional and global developments, forcing us to rethink the role and utility of identifying ‘revolutions’ in African History. The core argument – that nationalism in 1924 Sudan should be understood not as an external dislocation but rather as the result of deliberate internal social movements – not only challenges and revises existing Sudanese historiography, but also asks us to re-interrogate more broadly the relationship between revolution and nationalism during the twentieth century. This also reopens a rather old-fashioned topic, nationalism, to a very productive regional and chronological reframing, around issues of race, class, status, communicative action and ‘knowledge panics’, with inspirational effect. With a stunning depth and breadth of research, Vezzadini has produced a kind of ‘total’ event history, the foundation of which is a sustained socio-economic analysis of those who joined the revolution, to produce an important alternative account of an event deliberately orphaned by both embarrassed British officials and subsequent Sudanese nationalists.”


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
cedejsudan (8 janvier 2017). PRIZE – Elena Vezzadini’s book awarded the 2016 Bethwell A. Ogot Prize. Researching Sudan - A perspective on contemporary Sudan. Consulté le 24 mai 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/mhfx


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