Darfur's Sorrow
The Forgotten History of a Humanitarian Disaster

The second edition of the first ever general history of Darfur, bringing the story up to date.

M. W. Daly (Author)

9780521131872, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 24 May 2010

398 pages, 19 b/w illus. 2 maps
22.8 x 15.4 x 2 cm, 0.54 kg

Darfur's Sorrow is the first general history of Darfur to be published in any language. The book surveys events from before the founding of the Fur sultanate in the sixteenth century through the rise and establishment of the Fur state and its incorporation into the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1916. The narrative continues with detailed coverage of the brief but all-important colonial period (1916–1956) and Darfur's history as a neglected peripheral region since independence. The political, economic, environmental, and social factors that gave rise to the current humanitarian crisis are discussed in detail, as are the course of Darfur's rebellion, its brutal suppression by the Sudanese government, and the lawless brigands known as janjawid. The second edition of the book brings the story up to date and includes an analysis of attempts to save Darfur's embattled people and to bring an end to the fighting.

1. The 'abode of the blacks'
2. Lords of mountain and savanna: the origins and history of the Fur State to 1874
3. The ends of the Turkish world
4. Darfur at the end of time: the Mahdiyya, 1885–1898
5. Between an anvil and a hammer: the reign of Ali Dinar, 1898–1916
6. 'Closed district': Anglo-Egyptian colonial rule in Darfur, 1916–1939
7. Unequal struggles, 1939–1955
8. Colonial legacies and Sudanese rule, 1956–1969
9. Darfur and 'the May Regime', 1969–1985
10. Third time unlucky: Darfur and the restoration of parliamentary rule
11. The state of jihad
12. The destruction of Darfur.

Subject Areas: African history [HBJH], General & world history [HBG]