A approach for building a Sudanese nation

Abstract

If the political history of the independent Sudan could safely be epitomized till the year 1991 as a tale of a search for a constitution, the political life of the country had since then taken a new turn when the Frankfurt Agreement was concluded. The Frankfurt Agreement that was signed by Dr. Ali Elhag on behalf of the Government of the Sudan and Dr. Lam Akol on behalf of SPLM/A United -better known as Nassir Faction), went down in history as the first instrument ever to affirm self-determination as a right for Southern Sudanese. Though that agreement was not put into effect, it succeeded to call in, by association of ideas, a chain of political arrangements and understandings that invariably considered the concept of self-determination to be their central theme. The Khartoum Charter, the Khartoum Agreement, the Fashouda Agreement, the Chukudum Accord, the Asmara Declaration, the Djibouti Call of Homeland and notably the IGAD Declaration of Principles, had all unequivocally...