Description: Africa's newest nation has a long history. Often considered remote and isolated from the rest of Africa, and usually associated with the violence of slavery and civil war, South Sudan has been an arena for a complex mixing of peoples, languages, and beliefs.
Review Quotes: "South Sudan: A New History for a New Nation is the best current political history of the world's youngest nation by its most prominent living historian."--Deborah Scroggins, author of Emma's War