Jok Madut Jok, who was born and raised in Sudan, will deliver a lecture today on the Sudanese government’s counter-insurgency tactics used in Sudan’s conflicts since 1983. Jok’s extensive research on Sudanese refugee camps shows that these tactics include slavery, civilian killings and rape, according to a press release from the University’s African Studies Committee.
Jok will give his speech today in the Alumni Lounge in Gerlinger Hall at 4 p.m. A tea and coffee reception will precede the lecture at 3:30 p.m.
Currently an associate professor of history at Loyola Marymount University, Jok has a doctorate in anthropology from UCLA. He wrote “War and Slavery in Sudan,” published in 2001, a book that “exposes the enslavement of black peoples in Sudan,” according to the press release. As a black southerner and member of the Dinka, a group of African tribes targeted by Arab slave traders, Jok has an insider’s perspective on the various methods of capture, the experience of captivity and efforts of slaves to escape.
-Shadra Beesley
Specialist reacts to rape, killings, slavery in Sudan
Daily Emerald
November 29, 2005
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