Storrs McCall is an Emeritus Professor at the Department of Philosophy at McGill University. He was born in 1933 and obtained a DPhil from the University of Oxford in 1964. Dr Storrs McCall taught at Makerere University where he was in contact with the leaders of the Southern Sudan resistance against the Sudan Government from mid1960s up to the signing of the Addis Ababa Agreement in 1972 and knew many of them personally. This personal knowledge is refl ected in this book. His research interests lie in the philosophy of space and time, connexive logic, the problems of measurement and non-locality in quantum mechanics, and questions concerning deliberation, decision, freewill, probability and choice. He published several books and articles related to these philosophical matters
Lam Akol was a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Chemical Engineering in the University of Khartoum up to 1986. Born in 1950, he obtained a PhD and DIC from the University of London in 1980. While teaching in the University he published a number of articles in reputed scientifi c journals. He joined the SPLM/ SPLA in October 1983 and was a member of the Political-Military High Command, the highest organ of the Movement by then. He was formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sudan (2005-2007). Dr Lam Akol had shown interest in politics at an early age. He published several books and papers on the history and politics of South(ern) Sudan, one of which was the fourth edition of his book, SPLM/SPLA: Inside an African Revolution, published by the Africa World Books in 2018.