Oliver Batali Albino

Oliver Batali Albino, also sometimes referred to as Oliver Albino Batali, is a South Sudanese politician and former civil servant.

Oliver Batali Albino in Juba in July 2011

Background

Oliver Albino, born in 1935 in Yei, is a member of the Makaraka or Adio ethnic group in the YeiMaridi area of Central Equatoria, closely related to the Azande ethnic group.[1] He completed secondary school in Rumbek and studied at the University of Khartoum. In the early 1960s he went in exile and joined the Anya-Nya resistance movement in Kenya. In 1965 Oliver Albino became part of the Sudan African National Union (SANU) in Uganda. In the late 1960s and early 1970s he was a teacher at a secondary school in Gulu, northern Uganda.[2] During that period he wrote his first book “The Sudan: a Southern Viewpoint” (Oxford University Press, 1970). Oliver Albino was also a member of the Southern Sudan Liberation Movement’s delegation to the Addis Ababa peace talks of 1972. From 1975 – 1978 he was the Minister of Housing and Public Utilities in the Southern Sudan Regional Government led by Abel Alier.[3] For only two months in 1985, April - May, Oliver Albino was the Sudanese Minister of Labour in Khartoum. [4]

In 1996 – 1997 Oliver Albino was a fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. [5] In 2006 Oliver Albino published his second book "Democracy and power in the Sudan: How Decentralization Hurts". through AuthorHouse UK in Bloomington, USA. [6] After the Independence of South Sudan in July 2011, Oliver Albino was appointed by President Salva Kiir as a member of the Council of States. [7]

References

  1. ^ p. 117, Scopas S. Poggo, "The First Sudanese Civil War", Palgrave MacMillan 2009
  2. ^ Scopas S. Poggo, “Albino, Oliver Batali”, pp57 – 58 in Robert Kramer et al. “Historical Dictionary of the Sudan”, 4th edition, 2013, Scarecrow Press
  3. ^ Mohamed Beshir Hamid, "Sudan: Attempts at National Reconciliation", in: African Contemporary Record, vol. 10, 1977 - 1978
  4. ^ Kuyok Abol Kuyok, "South Sudan: The Notable Firsts", published in 2015 through AuthorHouse UK, Bloomington USA
  5. ^ https://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/fellows/files/fellows_listed_alphabetically_2012.pdf
  6. ^ see e.g. https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss/134-2072629-5941366?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=oliver+albino
  7. ^ http://fortuneofafrica.com/southsudan/representatives-of-the-former-council-of-states-of-the-republic-of-sudan-from-south-sudan-as-follows/

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