Grass Curtain
Academic journal
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Grass Curtain was a quarterly journal of Southern Sudanese politics and current events published by the Southern Sudan Association in London between 1970 and 1972. Enoch Mading de Garang was the journal's co-founder and editor-in-chief.[2][3] The Grass Curtain was closely linked to the Southern Sudan Liberation Movement (SSLM), the political arm of Anya-Nya, a collection of Southern Sudanese separatist movements formed during the First Sudanese Civil War.[2][3][note 1] The journal was published in large part to generate wider support for the South Sudanese cause.[4]
Name
The Curtain [surrounding Southern Sudan] is not iron, but grass. — Enoch Mading de Garang, 1970, London[1]
The journal's name, Grass Curtain, evoked the Iron Curtain, referring to the boundaries of disinterest and political oppression that obscured the conflict in Southern Sudan from wider attention.[5]
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Notes
- The Southern Sudan Liberation Movement (SSLM) of the First Sudanese Civil War (1955-1972) should not be confused with the South Sudan Liberation Movement formed in South Sudan in 1999. Southern Sudan Liberation Movement (SSLM) was the name adopted by Joseph Lagu in July, 1970, when he became the undisputed leader of a collection of southern guerrilla forces that had previously been known, comprehensively, as Anya Nya. For a good discussion of these events and the naming of the SSLM, see Scopas S. Poggo (2009). The First Sudanese Civil War: Africans, Arabs, and Israelis in the Southern Sudan, 1955-1972. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 64, 128–130. ISBN 9780230607965.
