The establishment, development and destruction of the settlement of al-Amud al-Akhdar in Darfur’s deep south forest belt provides a microcosm of Sudan’s modernization projects and their contradictions, interlocking strata of conflict, and their violent manifestations in the recent Darfur war. Until 1970, al-Amud was no more than seasonal-cattle camp used by Habbaniya Baggara pastoralists in [...]