Pan-Arabism v. Pan-Africanism in the Sudan: The Crisis of Divergent Ethnic Ideologies

This article examines the natu re and the extent of polit ical a n d c u l t u ra l c o n f l i c t betw e e n N o r t h e r n a n d S o u t h e r n Sudanese. I t describes and analyzes various attempts by Arab dominated reg imes in the Sudan, since independence from Brita in , to achieve national intergration through Pan-Arabist policies that seek to Is lam ize and Arabize the African and largely Christian South . The current mi l itary regime dominated by M usl im fundamental ists is trying to tu rn the Sudan into an Islamic republ ic . Not only has th is b rought about a c iv i l war, but it has also al ienated other M usl ims in the North who favor