Ahmad Alawad Sikainga

Interesting from many points of view - social history (which is not my thing), railways and Sudan (which are!).

In fact it's a very good view of a number of dynamics as experienced in Africa - urbanisation, industrialisation, the working class, trade unions, Islam and organised labour - and is a useful contribution to the literature which challenges a western view that Africa will develop the same as Europe in this regard.

It's a little disjointed and repetitive in places and could probably have used a bit more editing. And personally I would rather have seen more about the railways themselves, but you can't have everything.

A good and readable book.… (meer)