Sudan

How does colonialism apply to Sudan today? to understand this question we must first figure out what happened in Sudan and how Great Britain and Egypt have made their impacts on this country. Back in the 1880's the area known today as Sudan was colonized and ruled by Britain. Almost twenty years later Egypt entered the scene when Britain and Egypt decided to rule Sudan jointly and things stayed that way until the "Closed door" policy to separate the Arab peoples in the Northern parts of Sudan and those of African descent and this worked fairly well until 1956 when Sudan earned their Independence from both ruling nations. Sounds great right? not really, the people were still extremely divided from all those years of living the "Closed door" policies so two major groups emerged, the Africans in the south and the Arabs in the north. Now the two groups could have just split off into two separate nations at this point and everything would've been just peachy. Things don't work that way though instead the stronger of the two halves (Arab groups in the North) took control of the entire country and began to force their beliefs and traditions upon the African groups of the south. All other ideals, traditions and beliefs were suppressed and people were punished if they openly supported them. The Africans weren't going down without a fight though, and this has resulted in civil war throughout Sudan.

The best Solution to this problem in my opinion would be a strong, but peaceful intervention by stronger nations like the US, Britain, or Canada. They could bring some sort equality to all the people. Easy to say though, those countries have their own problems that need dealing with let alone taking the problems of other nations upon their shoulders, and even if they were to step in reversing the damage would take many many years.

Overall Colonialism has had a very interesting and negative effect upon Sudan. But I believe the real mistake here was splitting the two cultures up and having the "Closed door" policy in the first place, the people should have been forced to learn to live with each other and accept their differences long before gaining Independence.