This book is available on back order and is due to be published in April 2026
South Sudan’s Azande during colonialism, war, and displacement revisits a people long frozen in time by E. E. Evans-Pritchard’s classical anthropology. Its ethnographic research draws on archival sources and hundreds of interviews with chiefs, bureaucrats, former combatants, refugees, and stayees, beginning in a hopeful, post-independence South Sudan and continuing through war and displacement to Uganda. The book traces how colonialism, wars, and mass displacement have fractured Azande society, while also laying the ground for cultural renewal, historical consciousness, and even the reinstatement of an Azande kingdom. Yet the Azande’s cultural renaissance may also bear the seeds of renewed conflict.
Dr. Bruno Jim Braak works at the Netherlands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and remains a guest researcher at Leiden University, the Netherlands. His research interests include peace and conflict, (forced) migration, law and governance, and identity and belonging.
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