1988

Symposium and Annual General Meeting (AGM)
24 September 1988
Sudan Cultural Counsellor’s Office

An opening address and welcome was made by the Honorary President, Sir Gawain Bell, KCMG, CBE.

Recent History Chaired by Lesley Forbes

Professor G.N. Sanderson (Chairman, SSSUK), From Gordon Memorial College to the University of Khartoum: recollections and reflections, 1947-1965.

Sir Gawain Bell, Transferring Power.

Dr P.R. Woodward (Vice-Chairman, SSSUK), Independence and the Problem of Establishing Liberal Democracy, 1954-1958.

Science, the Environment and Ethnography Chaired by Dr D. Lindley (Institute of Terrestrial Ecology)

John Wright, CBE, FRICS, Saving the Desert by Solar Heat.

Dr Ahmed Kamal El-Din Hassan, (Research Student, University of Leeds), Famine in the Sudan, with special reference to Darfur.

Paul Wilson (Oriental and African Books, Shrewsbury), The Material Culture of the Baggara and Jamala Peoples of Darfur.

Politics and Administration Chaired by Simon Bush (The Centre for International Briefing)

Dr James L. Chiriyankandath (Researcher in Third World Politics), Neo-Islamic Politics in the Sudan as an Aspect of Contemporary Religious Revivalism.

Berhane Woldemichael (PhD. Candidate, Development Studies, LSE), The Paradox of Decentralisation as Development Administration: the case of the management of Primary Education in Southern Sudan.

Closing remarks were made by the Chairman, Professor G.N. Sanderson.