Grass Curtain

Grass Curtain

Language	English
Edited by	Enoch Mading de Garang
Publication details
Former name	Voice of Southern Sudan [1]
History	May 1970 - May 1972
Publisher	Southern Sudan Association in London (England)
Frequency	Quarterly
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OCLC  no.	490210863

Grass Curtain was a quarterly journal of Southern Sudanese politics and current events published by the Southern Sudan Association in London between 1970 and 1972. Enoch Mading de Garang was the journal's co-founder and editor-in-chief. ^{[2] [3]} The Grass Curtain was closely linked to the Southern Sudan Liberation Movement (SSLM), the political arm of Anya-Nya, a collection of Southern Sudanese separatist movements formed during the First Sudanese Civil War. ^{[2] [3] [note 1]} The journal was published in large part to generate wider support for the South Sudanese cause. ^[4]

Name

The Curtain [surrounding Southern Sudan] is not iron, but grass.
— Enoch Mading de Garang,1970,London ^[1]

The journal's name, Grass Curtain, evoked the Iron Curtain, referring to the boundaries of disinterest and political oppression that obscured the conflict in Southern Sudan from wider attention. ^[5]

See also

• Iron Curtain
• Anya-Nya
• National Archives of South Sudan
• Southern Sudan Association

Notes

1. The Southern Sudan Liberation Movement (SSLM) of the First Sudanese Civil War (1955-1972) should not be confused with the South Sudan Liberation Movement formed in South Sudan in 1999. Southern Sudan Liberation Movement (SSLM) was the name adopted by Joseph Lagu in July, 1970, when he became the undisputed leader of a collection of southern guerrilla forces that had previously been known, comprehensively, as Anya Nya. For a good discussion of these events and the naming of the SSLM, see Scopas S. Poggo (2009). The First Sudanese Civil War: Africans, Arabs, and Israelis in the Southern Sudan, 1955-1972 . New York: Palgrave Macmillan. pp.  64, 128–130. ISBN   9780230607965.

References

1. Kuyok, Kuyok Abol (2015). South Sudan: The Notable Firsts. AuthorHouse. ISBN   9781504943444.
2. Abdel Ghaffar Mohamed Ahmad (2010). Sudan Peace Agreements: Current Challenges and Future Prospects (PDF) (Report).
3. Christopher Gallien Tounsel (2015). 'God will crown us': The Construction of Religious Nationalism in Southern Sudan, 1898-2011 (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Michigan.
4. Kramer, Robert S.; Andrew Lobban, Richard; Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn, eds. (2013). "Southern Sudan Association". Historical Dictionary of the Sudan. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 395. ISBN   978-0810861800.
5. Wöndu, Steven; Lesch, Ann Mosely (2000). Battle for Peace in Sudan: An Analysis of the Abuja Conferences, 1992-1993. Washington, DC: University Press of America (Rowman & Littlefield). p. vii. ISBN   0761815163.

External links

• Communist Party of Sudan