SEMINAR – GAAFAR ELSOURI “OMDURMAN 1956-1969 : A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE ‘NATIONAL CAPITAL'”

We are very pleased to announce CEDEJ Khartoum next Seminar on “Omdurman (1956-1969) : a social history of the ‘national capital'” by Gaafar Elsouri, on Tuesday 14 August- 5pm

Through Omdurman’s Town Planning Board’s sources and oral testimonies of the town’s inhabitants, Gaafar Elsouri will share his Master thesis research on the social history of Omdurman and of the birth and creation of the imaginary of a ‘national capital’ in the early years of Sudan as an independent State.

Gaafar Elsouri is a graduate student in History and Civilization with a specialization on the history of the Global South, at Paris 7 Diderot University.