books.google.co.uk - Sudan’s post-independence history has been dominated by long, recurring, and bloody civil wars. Most commentators have attributed the country’s political and civil strife either to an age-old racial and ethnic divide between Arabs and Africans or to colonially constructed inequalities. In The Root...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Root_Causes_of_Sudan_s_Civil_Wars.html?id=Qq9GQyFDMe0C&q=Sadiq+al-Mahdi&utm_source=gb-gplus-share“The” Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars