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A New Beginning in South Sudan

People in South Sudan continue to celebrate the recent vote that apparently is running 99-1 for secession. But the vote and the concomitant celebrations should be seen as a beginning point and not an endpoint. Nothing from here on out will be quite so morally or politically simple as the act of going to the polls, however gratifying the polling has proven to be. The hard work is just beginning.

 

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Derek Catsam

Derek Catsam is a Professor of history and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. He is also Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University. Derek writes about race and politics in the United States and Africa, sports, and terrorism. He is currently working on books on bus boycotts in the United States and South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s and on the 1981 South African Springbok rugby team's tour to the US. He is the author of three books, dozens of scholarly articles and reviews, and has published widely on current affairs in African, American, and European publications. He has lived, worked, and travelled extensively throughout southern Africa. He writes about politics, sports, travel, pop culture, and just about anything else that comes to mind.

Areas of Focus:
Africa; Zimbabwe; South Africa; Apartheid

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