Very excited that my chapter on Sudan's constitution is out as part of a fantastic edited vol on post-colonial constitutions in Africa by Nicodemus Fru Awasom & Hlengiwe Portia Dlamini, which includes many other interesting chapters. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
This book provides an overview of the making and development of Africa’s independence constitutions as a whole and from a historical perspective.
You can find my chapter here: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... The chapter aims to bring out the nuances of the constitution writing process in 1956–69, which a lot of other lit alludes to but does not engage with in detail.
This chapter analyses how contradicting conceptions of the Sudanese nation, partially rooted in the colonial experience, led to Sudan’s transitional constitution becoming inadvertently permanent...