Mann, Laura - In: Review of African Political Economy 41 (2014) 142, pp. 561-578
By tracking the changing nature of <italic>wasta</italic>, or personal intermediation, in the Khartoum labour market, this paper examines the impact of Islamist policies on state-society relations in Khartoum, Sudan. It argues that economic liberalisation and higher education expansion weakened sectarian control...