Ahmad Alawad SikaingaAhmad Alawad Sikainga is Professor of History at the Ohio State University. He is the author of City of Steel and Fire: A Social History of Atbara, Sudan's Railway Town, 1906-1984 (2002), Slaves into Workers: Emancipation and Labor in Colonial Sudan 1996), Western Bahr al-Ghazal under British Rule, 1898-1956 (1990), and Sudan Defense Force: Origin and Role, 1925-1955 (1983). He is coeditor of Post-War Reconstruction in Africa (2006) and Civil War in Sudan (1993). Read More Read Less