Birth of a State: Rethinking South Sudanese Collective Identity through Identity Anchors
Following the independence of South Sudan in 2011, the coherence of South Sudanese “national” identity has come into question. Before the Southern secession, Northerners were united by a common language and religion, but Southerners did not have this uniting reality. For this reason, scholars now w...
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2022-01-01
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Following the independence of South Sudan in 2011, the coherence of South Sudanese “national” identity has come into question. Before the Southern secession, Northerners were united by a common language and religion, but Southerners did not have this uniting reality. For this reason, scholars now wonder whether there is a collective South Sudanese identity because the sine qua non of unity among South Sudanese tribes was a collective opposition to Northern Sudan. However, the present article defends a collective South Sudanese identity based on how “nation-building” has been undertaken historically. It also argues that tribal diversity in itself does not negate the presence of a South Sudanese collective “national” identity because internal tribal divisions are a global phenomenon and “tribal” and “national” identities are activated contextually.
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| spelling | doaj-art-8bf067c47e5448419c52ea72120ca64e2025-08-20T03:59:25ZengUniversity of Hradec KrálovéModern Africa2336-32742570-75582022-01-019210.26806/modafr.v9i2.330Birth of a State: Rethinking South Sudanese Collective Identity through Identity AnchorsKuir ë Garang0York University Following the independence of South Sudan in 2011, the coherence of South Sudanese “national” identity has come into question. Before the Southern secession, Northerners were united by a common language and religion, but Southerners did not have this uniting reality. For this reason, scholars now wonder whether there is a collective South Sudanese identity because the sine qua non of unity among South Sudanese tribes was a collective opposition to Northern Sudan. However, the present article defends a collective South Sudanese identity based on how “nation-building” has been undertaken historically. It also argues that tribal diversity in itself does not negate the presence of a South Sudanese collective “national” identity because internal tribal divisions are a global phenomenon and “tribal” and “national” identities are activated contextually. https://journals.uhk.cz/modernafrica/article/view/207SudanSouth SudanNationNation-statetribal identitynational identity |
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| title | Birth of a State: Rethinking South Sudanese Collective Identity through Identity Anchors |
| title_full | Birth of a State: Rethinking South Sudanese Collective Identity through Identity Anchors |
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| title_short | Birth of a State: Rethinking South Sudanese Collective Identity through Identity Anchors |
| title_sort | birth of a state rethinking south sudanese collective identity through identity anchors |
| topic | Sudan South Sudan Nation Nation-state tribal identity national identity |
| url | https://journals.uhk.cz/modernafrica/article/view/207 |
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