Books by John Gai Yoh

The history of Torit Munity is a culmination of resistance of the people of Southern Sudan against foreign invasions and foreign Interventions in the region. The advent of the Turks, the Egyptians, the British, the French, the Italians, and Belgians in Southern Sudan transition from ethnic cantons to what became Southern Sudan in 1920 can be understood within the context of the formation of the Equatoria Corps in 1924. The people of Southern Sudan for the first time were recruited into the Sudan army as a separate military unit with headquarters in Torit town, Eastern Equatoria.

The conflict over the identity of Sudanproduced two contradictory ideologicalvisions for what Sudan represented. Thedevelopment of political organizations inSouth Sudan during the period 1920s-1972 isthe history that this book attempts to relate.It is a history of political ideas that were lateron transformed into political and militaryorganizations, each on its own ways tried toachieve what was the core of conflict that ispolitical and socio-economic identity for thepeople of South Sudan.

The Sudan state have been in crisis for too long, and rarely did any of the numerous political organizations in the country take the risk and the burden to debate, ∩¼üght and negotiate for the transformationof the country from a decadent military coup prone underdevelopedstate to a viable democratic country; and from a religious fanatic andracist state to a multi-cultural and multi-religious tolerant state. Sinceindependence only the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army(SPLM/A) dared to challenge all the shades of Sudanese political spectrum to transform the country into a viable economic and politicaldemocratic and secular country, where citizenship is the criteria forbelonging to a nation.