The Southern Sudan in Historical Perspective

Robert O. Collins is one of the most prolific authors on Africa, the Sudan,and the Nile. The Southern Sudan in Historical Perspective, based on a seriesof lectures he gave in 1973 to the Department of Middle Eastern and AfricanHistory and the Shiloah Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies atTel Aviv University, is a succinct and engaging study of the Southern Sudan,from its origins in antiquity, the British occupation of the early twentiethcentury, the civil disturbances of 1955, its independence in 1956, to theviolence of the late 1960s and early 1970s.