Tenants and nomads in eastern Sudan : a study of economic adaptations in the New Halfa Scheme

Abstract

"In December 1959, Egypt and the Sudan signed the Nile Water Agreement which allowed the Egyptian government to construct the famous High Dam of Aswan. The building of the dam caused the flooding of large areas along the Nile in both countries, and some 100.000 people, mainly Nubians, were displaced as the lake behind the dam submerged all village communities between Aswan and the Dal Cataract in northern Sudan..."

<p>Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Social reproduction and differentiation in Sudanense tenants communities - the New Halfa case -- 3. Rural settlement and urban orientation - Nubians on the New Halfa Scheme -- 4. Nomadic tenants and the Butana Rangelands - a study of land use patterns and the role of livestock among Shukriya -- 5. The Jiddah connection: on the transformation of the Basalwa in New Halfa Town -- 6. Nubians songs and Shukriya poems: protest and renaissance</p>