A Social History of Atbara, Sudan's Railway Town 1906-1984
Sikainga, Ahmad Alawad (Ohio State University, USA)
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Hardback
256 pages
6 Maps, 11 Photographs
Published: 2003
Publisher: James Currey (Publishers) Ltd
ISBN / EAN: 0852559674
Atbara is a town that is the headquarters of the Sudan railways and the centre of what was, for 50 years, a militant labour movement. This text chronicles the struggles of the railway workers against the Sudanese colonial and post-colonial governments.
