The spectacle of death: visibility and concealment at an unfinished memorial in South Sudan

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Ruptured imaginings amid emerging nationhood: The unsettled narrative of “unity in resistance” in South Sudanese history textbooks

“…One relates to the experiences of thousands of children forcibly recruited by the SPLA (Røed, 2009); many of these erstwhile child soldiers are likely to be teachers expected to use these textbooks today. More generally, the textbooks do not mention the SPLM/A's “often‐brutal relationship with the civilian population” (Cormack, 2017: 124). Another silence covers the scope and nature of internal rivalries within the SPLA during the struggle (Madut‐Arop, 2012), a complex and sensitive issue only briefly touched upon, while a suggested activity asks students to use the textbook and stories circulating in their communities to “discuss the internal problems that the SPLM/A faced” (Book 2: 78).…”