Gerasimov, I. V., Babiker, M THE SUDANESE GRADUATES’ GENERAL CONGRESS AND THE PRESS. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2021;43(4):17–25. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2021.613


World history

THE SUDANESE GRADUATES’ GENERAL CONGRESS AND THE PRESS

Gerasimov
I. V. 		Saint Petersburg State University
Babiker
Mohamed Mustafa Altigani 		Saint Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design
Keywords:
Sudan
Graduates’ General Congress
press
debating societies
political parties		 Summary: The article deals with the activities of the youth public organization known as the Graduates’ General Congress, whose members were the graduates of different educational institutions in Sudan. With the growth of its authority among the young generation and the most active society strata, thanks to its humanitarian and social initiatives, this organization entered politics and was able to form and defend its benchmark ideas in front of the Anglo-Egyptian colonial administration. Members of the Organizing Committee of the Congress also were political writers and took part in the activities of the press, which got a serious impetus to development in the 1940s. Gradually, on the basis of various ideological and political trends within the Congress, the first political parties that had their own press were formed. The article presents newspapers and magazines of those years and indicates the personal participation of members of the Organizing Committee of the Congress in their publication activities. It gives a much deeper understanding of the political preferences and aims of young politicians who formed the political elite of the country and the Sudanese national journalistic school after Sudan declared its independence in 1956. The authors used research papers and memoirs written mainly by the Arabic-language Sudanese authors as their study materials. Most of the sources are mentioned in the historiography of oriental studies for the first time.



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