Sudan Notes and Records
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Sudan Notes and Records was founded in 1918 by the British administration of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The journal was a leading African scholarly journal on Sudanese studies, published continuously from January 1918 to 1984 (apart from a break 1943-1944). A new series appeared briefly from 1997 to 2001.
The journal was published by IFAO in Cairo until 1920, then by the University of Khartoum. Until 1952, it was the only regularly published journal in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
- “Front Matter.” Sudan Notes and Records, vol. 1, no. 1, 1918.
- In: Wingate, F. R. “THE SIEGE AND FALL OF KHARTUM.” Sudan Notes and Records, vol. 13, no. 1, 1930, pp. 1–82.
- in: Giorgetti, Filiberto, and H. B. Bullen. “AFRICAN MUSIC. (With Special Reference to the Zande Tribe).” Sudan Notes and Records, vol. 33, no. 2, 1952, pp. 216–23.
- Amin, Mutwakil A. “ANCIENT TRADE AND TRADE ROUTES BETWEEN EGYPT AND THE SUDAN, 4000 TO 700 B.C.” Sudan Notes and Records, vol. 51, 1970, pp. 23–30.
Sudan Notes and Records first published the ethnographic observations of British district officials, whose interest in social anthropology and ethnology was encouraged by their need to find out about the people that they administered. The journal also regularly published papers on linguistics, archaeology, agricultural practices, the navigability of rivers (and edibility of their fish), the histories of towns and places, big game hunting, sport, and a miscellany of other topics. These papers were written by colonial officials, anthropologists, missionaries, doctors, and others.
Later on, Sudanese increasingly contributed to Sudan Notes and Records. In the 1920s, a number of articles ‘written by Sudanese sheikhs’ were allotted to favoured notables and tribal chiefs. In the late 1930s, the editorial policy of the journal expanded to include articles and correspondences written by the intelligentsia, including Sayyed Abd el-Rahman el-Mahdi, the patron of a prominent Sudanese political party, the Umma. Until independence in 1956, the ‘Sudanisation’ of contribution to the journal became one of the focal points of editorial notes.
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sfdas (17 février 2015). Sudan Notes and Records. Section Française de la Direction des Antiquités du Soudan. Consulté le 5 juin 2026 à l’adresse https://sfdas.hypotheses.org/494





