Keyword: Sudan

Redrawing Colonial Boundaries: Africa in the 21st Century

Picture: USAID Africa Bureau Glenn Ashton - The borders of Sudan, Africa’s biggest country, are about to change, provided all the players in this grand game stay the distance. This could be the most significant redrawing of the colonial boundaries of Africa since the colonial transition that saw the departure of the European colonial powers, abandoning their "places in the sun." The partition of Africa into its present illogical and arbitrary boundaries took place just over a century ago, during what is now known as...