The fifth Sudan Course took place at Rumbek Senior Secondary School in June 2008 under the direction of Justin Willis and John Ryle. The course is taught by a team of noted Sudanese academics and activists and international specialists. This year the teaching staff included Roland Marchal, Douglas Johnson, Magdi al Na’im, Joanna Oyediran, Jok Madut Jok, Samia Ahmed, Osman Mohamed Osman, Philip Winter, Sara Pantuliano, Dan Large and Cherry Leonardi. There were guided visits to the Rumbek cattle-auction and to the nineteenth-century slave-traders’ fort on the outskirts of the town. An RVI soccer team lost to the Rumbek town team in front of a large crowd in Freedom Square