Sudan Pt.2: Hassan al-Turabi, Sudan’s Islamist Pioneer

The second episode of our four part series on the history of Sudan
is here! As the British Empire loses its hold on the country, new
nationalistic movements in Sudan began to develop. With the help of
revolutionary Islamic thinkers like Hasan Al Turabi, various
movements would vie for supremacy, with those calling for Liberal
democracy, communism and Islamism all attempting to gain a foothold
of power in the new reality for the country in the 20th century.
But what would these tensions lead to? A happy independence, or the
mire of conflict? And could Sudan overcome the ethnic and religious
tensions between its North and South in the process? In this
episode, Thomas and Aimen traverse across Sudan to explore how the
modern state came to be, going through independence, power
struggles and civil war, with a fascinating character profile of
perhaps the country’s most significant political and religious
personality of the 20th century: Hasan Al Turabi.  New
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