Religion and Nationalism in South Sudan - Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan By Christopher Tounsel. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. Pp. 205. $99.95, hardcover (ISBN: 9781478010630); $25.95, paperback (ISBN: 9781478011767) – CORRIGENDUM

Vincanne Adams (ed.), Metrics: What Counts in Global Health (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), pp. 258, $24.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-8223-6097-1.

In recent years a head of critical steam has built up around 'metrics'. This is shorthand for the glut of statistical indicators deployed today in global governance, both by established institutions like the United Nations and its special agencies, and by newer public/private partnerships and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Their function is to crystallise in a single number a complex ar...

Multidimensional Poverty in Sudan and South Sudan

This paper assesses multidimensional poverty in Sudan and South Sudan. We use the National Baseline Household Surveys (NBHS) of 2009 to measure poverty incidence in education, consumption, access to public assets and possession of private assets across these two countries. We differentiate between children/teenagers aged six to fourteen years and adults aged fifteen years or older. We apply a c...

Nancy Rose Hunt, A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies and Reverie in Colonial Congo (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), pp. xviii, 353, paperback, $26.95, ISBN: 978-0-8223-5965-4.

Dracunculiasis in South Sudan

A Dinka-tribesman came to Marial Lou Hospital, South Sudan, in 2005. He experienced severe discomfort from a Dracunculus Medinensis (Guinea worm) emerging from his perineum (see Figures 1 and 2). The 80-cm-long parasite was successfully extracted. Persons get Dracunculiasis by drinking water containing water fleas harboring the larvae of the worm. The larvae are released into the water by the a...

X-Ray Crystallography. Second Edition. By William Clegg. Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 128. Price GBP 14.99 (paperback). ISBN 9780198700975.

During my career, I have taught undergraduates majoring in physics and undergraduates majoring in chemistry. I have also taught molecular biologists and biochemists. My initial preference in teaching X-ray crystallography to any undergraduate was for my physics undergraduate course book in crystallography by Michael Woolfson (1970). However, that book, with its clear mathematical foundation, is...