Dr. Masinde’s visit to Khartoum, Sudan

From October 27-28, 2010, Dr. Siro Masinde, JSTOR’s Regional Coordinator for Africa will provide two training workshops to faculty and students from various regions in Sudan, meeting in Khartoum.  This workshop has been jointly organized by the Sudanese Universities Information Network – founded in 2004 by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and JSTOR.  These training workshops provide us with an important opportunity to expand access to our digital resources to scholars and researchers in Africa, while also providing us with a greater understanding of the issues libraries and scholars face in a particular country or region.   Sudan is famous for a number of things.  Many don’t know Sudan is the largest country in Africa in terms of land mass and area.  It is also the 10th largest nation in the world  – just ahead of Algeria and behind Kazakhstan.  It is also listed as the 20th largest nation in terms of its oil reserves.  Sudan is a nation of tremendous diversity both in terms of its peoples as well as of natural and cultural landscapes.  Mountain ranges divide the deserts in the North from the marshes and tropical forests of the South.  Sudan is also home to more pyramids than its northern neighbor, Egypt and home to Gebel Barkal, a testament to the second Kingdom of Kush.

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