Are peace and self-determination possible, for the Sudanese people, despite troops amassing in both north and the south, and vast oil wealth, concentrated in the South and coveted by competitive foreign powers? And, despite the Global War on Terror, which casts north and south on opposite sides of a Judeo-Christian/Islamic divide? Ann Garrison reports on Southern Sudan's referendum on independence. This program was produced by Ann Garrison and b ...

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Are peace and self-determination possible, for the Sudanese people, despite troops amassing in both north and the south, and vast oil wealth, concentrated in the South and coveted by competitive foreign powers? And, despite the Global War on Terror, which casts north and south on opposite sides of a Judeo-Christian/Islamic divide? Ann Garrison reports on Southern Sudan's referendum on independence. This program was produced by Ann Garrison and broadcast on January 8, 2011 on AfrobeatRadio on WBAI 99.5 FM, New York at 4:00 PM. Our guests include: Mugume D. Rwakaringi, African reporter for Nile Fortune in Djuba, Southern Sudan, Rev. Dr. Nikita Imani, African American Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, James Madison University, Virginia, Peter Erlinder, William and Mitchell College of Law Professor, Lead Counsel at the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda.

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Authors Bio:

Ann Garrison is an independent journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014, she received the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize for her reporting on conflict in the African Great Lakes region. She can be reached at (at)AnnGarrison or ann(at)kpfa.org . She grew up around a radioactive toxic mess called the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, in a gorgeous place, Washington's Olympic Peninsula, by way of Western Oklahoma, another gorgeous place. She is a compulsive writer and sometimes some times signs as AnnieGetYourGang.