UNDOING A REVOLUTION, Sudan and the politics of debt

222pp., map, paperback, C. Hurst & Co, London, 2025

ISBN: 9781805263050

Harry Cross narrates the history of sovereign debt in Sudan from independence to the present, the policies Sudanese governments adopted to manage their place in the global economy, and how external actors leveraged the power of debt to impose their will.

"Undoing a Revolution makes a novel argument that Sudan’s democratic transition was undermined by international and domestic policymakers. A highly original work." Alden Young, Associate Professor of History, Yale University, and author of Transforming Sudan: Decolonization, economic development and state formation

"A story of how sovereign debt, poor economic policy, external private creditors’ interests and the predatory nature of a shifting global financial architecture sealed Sudan’s postcolonial trajectory in perpetual subordination to outside interests." Raga Makawi, co-author of Sudan’s Unfinished Revolution

Harry Cross has taught at Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University in Saudi Arabia, and the University of Liverpool. Currently working on the response to Sudan’s civil war for the research charity Impact, he holds a doctorate from Durham University.