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1. Kwesi Sansculotte-Greenidge is a Senior Researcher in the Knowledge Production Department at ACCORD. He obtained a PhD in Anthropology from Durham University, UK and an MA in African Studies from Yale University, USA. Thanks go to colleagues in the Knowledge Production Department, Dr. Grace Maina, Salome Van Jaarsveld, Christy McConnell and Dr Martha Mutisi for their insightful review of this article.

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4. B.G.P./SCR/I.C.6, ‘Administrative policy, Southern Provinces’, 22 March 1930, Bahr al-Ghazal province governor Brock to Civil Secretary, reproduced in the collection British Southern Policy in the Sudan (nd)

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