British authorities treat Sudan's three southern provinces…

1924 CE to 1935 CE

British authorities treat Sudan's three southern provinces as a separate region.

The colonial administration, as it consolidates its southern position in the 1920s, detaches the south from the rest of Sudan for all practical purposes.

The period's "closed door" ordinances, which bar northern Sudanese from entering or working in the south, reinforces this separate development policy.

Moreover, the British gradually replace Arab administrators and expel Arab merchants, thereby severing the south's last economic contacts with the north.

The colonial administration also discourages the spread of Islam, the practice of Arab customs, and the wearing of Arab dress.

At the same time, the British make efforts to revitalize African customs and tribal life that the slave trade had disrupted.

Finally, a 1930 directive states that blacks in the southern provinces are to be considered a people distinct from northern Muslims and that the region should be prepared for eventual integration with British East Africa.

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Juba Central Equatoria South Sudan View →

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Dinka people View → Nuer people View → Arab people View → Islam View → Fur people (Nilo-Saharan tribe) View → Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) View → Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian View → Egypt, Kingdom of (British Protectorate) View → Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) View →

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