ABSTRACT
Despite the large number of donor funds, technical resources, and foreign planning expertise, urban planning has been a failed enterprise in the capital of South Sudan, leaving urban reconstruction to proceed in ad hoc fashion since the 2005 CPA. SPLM leaders of the Government of South Sudan have blamed this on the ‘corrupt’ activities of local bureaucrats working the Central Equatoria State Government, whose control of the land allocation and management system in the town has allowed them to profit from the lucrative land market. This chapter frames ‘corruption’ as a form of bureaucratic resistance, which served to forestall the SPLM capital city planning agenda, the conceptualization of citizenship that it promoted, and the consequences for the institutionalization of ethno-political relations in the new South Sudanese state that would result from it.
