Cherry Leonardi

Membership:  2020

Member Bio

Cherry Leonardi is an associate professor in African history at Durham University in the UK, specialising in the history of South Sudan and northern Uganda. Her previous research explored local-level processes of state formation and the construction of authority, communities, and boundaries. She is the author of Dealing with Government in South Sudan: Histories of Chiefship, Community and State and co-author of Dividing Communities in South Sudan and Northern Uganda: Boundary Disputes and Land Governance.

Projects

Publications

  • With Abraham Diing Akoi, Alimure Modi Waran, Jedeit J Riek, Machot Amuom, Tabu Elder and Leben Nelson Moro. Fuelling Poverty: The challenges of accessing energy among urban households in Juba, South Sudan. London: Rift Valley Institute, 2020.
  • "Patchwork States: The Localisation of State Territoriality on the South Sudan-Uganda Border, 1914–2014." Past & Present 248, no. 1 (2020): 209–58.
  • With A. J. Browne. Valuing Land in Eastern Africa. Special issue of Critical African Studies 10, no. 1 (2018).
  • With M. Santschi. Dividing Communities in South Sudan and Northern Uganda: Boundary Disputes and Land Governance. London: Rift Valley Institute, 2016.
  • Dealing with Government in South Sudan: Histories of Chiefship, Community and State. Oxford: James Currey, 2013.
  • "Points of order? Local Government Meetings as Negotiation Tables in South Sudan." Journal of Eastern African Studies 9 (2015): 650–68.
  • "South Sudanese Arabic and the Negotiation of the Local State, c. 1840–2011." Journal of African History 54, no. 3 (2013): 351–72.

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