Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892
A Missionary's Eyewitness Account of Survival and Revolt in Mahdist SudanBy Josef Ohrwalder, F. R. Sir Wingate
Length2h 44m
About this audiobook
Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp, 1882–1892 offers a compelling documentary narrative of survival, religious encounter, and political upheaval during the Mahdist state in Sudan. Combining eyewitness recollection with editorial and translational mediation, the volume moves between adventure narrative, ethnographic observation, missionary testimony, and military-political chronicle. Its account of imprisonment and forced movement through wartime Sudan is especially significant for the perspective it affords on a conflict often filtered through imperial military histories. Yet the text also demands critical reading, revealing the assumptions, fears, and interpretive habits of late nineteenth-century European writing about Africa and Islam. The collaboration joins the testimony of an Austrian Catholic missionary with the work of F. R. Wingate, a British officer, administrator, and influential interpreter of Sudanese affairs. Their distinct positions—one shaped by prolonged captivity, the other by imperial-era translation and contextualization—situate the book at the intersection of missionary literature, colonial knowledge production, and Mahdist historiography. Together, these voices preserve details of everyday deprivation, political authority, religious devotion, and social change amid the turbulent decades following the Mahdist revolution. This volume is recommended for readers of Sudanese history, African studies, imperial literature, and captivity narratives. It provides an invaluable opportunity to examine testimony alongside its framing, to compare lived experience with colonial representation, and to engage critically with the complex dialogue between faith, empire, resistance, and memory.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length2 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 25, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The French in Algiers
2CHAPTER VII.
3CHAPTER XV.
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