African American Churches and U.S. Policy in Sudan
Allen Hertzke Saturday, 1 March 2008
For over two decades Sudan has been afflicted with civil wars and genocidal conflict, generally pitting the dominant Islamist regime of Khartoum against various African peoples in this patchwork nation. With kinship ties to the continent, African Americans have been drawn into advocacy on behalf of the besieged people of Sudan, led by the central institution of the community—the black church. Indeed, mobilization in African American churches emerged as one of the key sources of pressure on the regime to end its assaults, first against southern tribes and now against the people of Darfur.
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