Abstract
This article critically examines the political instrumentalisation of identity and cultural heritage in the Sudanese context. After 50 years of civil wars portrayed as a conflict of identities, cultural identity is supposedly being used in an opposite way. The peace implementation process following the signature of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005, invokes cultural identity for a wide societal project of reconciliation through the recognition of cultural, religious, and linguistic diversity through a policy of cultural heritage-making. Museums are being constructed and new fields of heritage, such as intangible heritage, are being created. Through the assessment of the concept of heritage as a mean of political recognition, it will be possible to understand how the Sudanese authorities, as well as dissident groups, are using the heritagemaking process as a political resource and a means for pacification or, on the contrary, for political contestation.
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