This latest episode features Prof. Dr. Valentina Serreli talking with Cluster fellow Dr. Elshifa Elamin about her research project, in which she scrutinizes the language rights regime in Sudan enforced by the British colonial system. Sudan was under British colonial rule from 1899 to 1956, referred to as the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan or the Condominium. During this time, the British colonial system aimed to create new identities, including in Sudan and other parts of the Global South. The colonial regime restructured the precolonial social space and people into two ideologically and spatially opposed identities: the South and the North. To achieve this, they implemented a racialized apartheid system called the British Southern Policy. This system aimed to create language-based tribal units as a social and political administration tool, particularly in Southern Sudan. Language played a pivotal role in realizing this colonial project and is the main focus of Prof. Elamin's research.
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