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Robert O. Collins has written extensively on Africa, the Sudan, and the Nile. His histories of Africa include Europeans in Africa (1971); Western African History, Eastern African History, and Central and Southern African History (1990); Problems in African History (1991); Historical Problems of Imperial Africa (1992), and Problems in Modern Africa (1994).
His writing on the Sudan include the quartet The Southern Sudan, 1883-1898: A Struggle for Control (1962); King Leopold, England, and the Upper Nile (1968); Land Beyond the Rivers: The Southern Sudan, 1989-1918 (1971); and Shadows on the Grass: Britain in the Southern Sudan, 1918-1956 (1983), which won the John Ben Snow prize for the best book in British studies in 1984. His other works on the Sudan include The Southern Sudan in Historical Perspective (1975) and Requiem for the Sudan: War, Drought, and Disaster Relief on the Nile (coauthored with Millard Burr, 1994).
His half century of interest in the Nile has resulted in The Waters of the Nile: Hydropolitics and the Jonglei Canal (1990 and 1994) and The Waters of the Nile: An Annotated Bibliography (1991). His most recent books are Africa's Thirty Years War: Chad, Libya, and the Sudan, 1963-1993 (coauthered with Millard Burr, 1999) and The Nile (2001).
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