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Chronological account of Sudan's history from 1821 to the present, showing how ethnic divisions and failed leadership have sustained conflicts....
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 ser...
The Long Road to Disaster
In Darfur: The Long Road to Disaster, Burr and Collins have updated their original 1999 volume with additional chapters. The new title is not a publis...
Essays on the Sudan, Southern Sudan and Darfur, 1962 - 2004
This is a collection of twenty essays written over forty years between 1962 and 2004 on the Sudan, southern Sudan and Darfur. Four decades of civil wa...
Hasan al-Turabi and the Islamist State, 1989-2000
This book provides new sources and information on the first decade of the revolutionary Sudan (1989-2000) and the role played by its principal ideolog...
A Struggle for Control
This book describes the Madhist invasions of the Southern Sudan, their success, and finally their defeat by the forces of the Congo Free State....
Chad-libya-the Sudan, 1963-1993
Africa's Thirty Years' War began in the early 1960s, when a civil war in Chad pitted the Muslim north and center against the political domination of A...
War, Drought, And Disaster Relief On The Nile
After a decade of uneasy peace, the historic conflict between the Northern and Southern Sudanese erupted into violent conflict in 1983. This ferocious...
Britain in the Southern Sudan, 1918-1956
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Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World
There has been a dramatic proliferation of Islamic charities recently. While most are legitimate, considerable evidence reveals that others have more ...
A Short History
Attempts to provide an overview of African history without getting bogged down in details and data. This book offers an account of the African past, i...
Hydropolitics and the Jonglei Canal, 1900-1988
This is a history of the hydropolitics of the Nile Valley from 1900 to 1988. Attempts to develop the Nile and control its waters are of vital signific...
An Annotated Bibliography
"...IMPRESSIVE IN SCOPE..."--CHOICE. "...VERY USEFUL TO ANY RESEARCHER, CONSULTANT OR STUDENT WANTING TO BE APPRAISED OF THE ESSENTIAL READING TO PENE...
Ten Legendary Rapids
The A to Z of Pre-Colonial Africa seeks to familiarize the reader with pre-colonial Africa, the Africa that began with the migrations of the Bantu fro...
This dictionary provides information about Africa before European colonial rule. It features details of African culture, history, rulers, migrations, ...
The Past and Present of a Future
Hasan Al-Turabi and the Islamist State, 1989-2003
Investigates the genesis and objectives of the first Islamist nation created within the larger Sunni community. This book focuses on the activity of S...
Hasan al-Turabi and the Islamist State, 1989-2003
A Preliminary Guide to American Missionary Archives and Library Manuscript Collections on Africa