Azza Dirar, Sudanese PhD student at East Anglia University, UK

“This is a sublime piece of work on Sudan, the likes of which I have never come across. It will, undoubtedly, disillusion a section of the Sudanese public which harbours erroneous beliefs about itself; beliefs that are so endemic, so deeply embedded in its psyche to be recognized as false beliefs. The different degrees of stigma and how their dynamics operate in practice, is insightful in analysing the Sudanese situation. The author also rightly emphasizes, that this crisis of identity is the root cause of all our ailments. What is needed is a grand awakening and this book holds the promise to do that in an unprecedented way.”