Imperialism In Sudan

During the New Age of Imperialism, countries competed for power and wealth. An effective and legitimate way to prove so, under the judgement of 19th-20th century Europe, was to conquer other nations as colonies. It was also seen as powerful to guide “primitive, inferior” nations with European ideology, and embodies the phenomenon known as paternalism. Although this seemed idealistic, many of these nations demanded their own sovereignty and freedom. After these were rewarded, though, the repercussions of paternalistic imperialism in certain nations were grim and to this day continue to haunt and destroy nations. When investigating into this issue, it can be concurred that Sudan was one of the nations’ most deeply impacted by it.

Britain originally colonized Sudan in 1886 and split …show more content…
Yet, due to the contrasting levels of education and amount of wealth, the two groups were bound to partake in conflict. The southern Sudanese were not given autonomy or representation, which prolonged the previous separation ism. The northern Sudanese, or “Arabs” believed that the southern “black Africans” were inferior and needed to be “ethnically cleansed”. This lead civil wars and a massive genocide, leaving almost 6 million people in search of refuge (circa. 20th century). Even after peace has been established, and South Sudan has gained self determination as a successor state, the states are still facing turmoil. In the last two years, genocidal actions taken by the government as an counterinsurgency campaign has taken around three hundred thousand lives and displaced around three million people. The prolonged conflict is a consequence of the pursual of nationalistic interests of the British, and because of their treatment of a nation as puppets. If the British had not have pursued imperialistic actions, the horrendous conflict, poverty and tragedy in Sudan could have been avoided