Academic Paper from the year 2017 in the subject Politics - Region: Near East, Near Orient, grade: MA, Oklahoma State University, language: English, abstract: Radical changes in the world in the late 20th century to a large extent reflected in the political process in African countries. This process - is the ambiguous, contradictory, very diverse in methods, content and results depending on sociohistorical specificity of a particular country. Geographical, historical, cultural and ethnic diversity of the African continent defined the specificity of the political development of the individual states. The African continent presents a unique opportunity to trace the variety of ways of the development of states, as they are characterized by diversity of the specific historical conditions, different level of socio-economic and geo-political evolution. Sudan, belonging to three regions - the Arab world, North-East and sub-Saharan Africa - makes it possible to identify both general and specific features of the political development. This factor gives the study the relevance, as well as scientific and practical significance.