[Peace-discuss] Blog Review of Mamdani's "Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror"

[David Green]

His most recent work, Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror (Pantheon), is really several books in one. A large middle section covers the ethnic/tribal/political history of Darfur itself in enormous detail, and will be useful mainly to Africa specialists. But his opening segment, a brilliant dissection of the Save Darfur movement, should be read by everyone who thinks they understand what is really going on today in that area of Sudan. His conclusion is similarly indispensable, in which he raises doubts that the Western passion to pursue "justice" in places like Darfur can also promote peace.

First, the facts. 

http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/04/mamdani-save-darfur-movement-is-not-a-peace-movement-.html


      
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