Books by Robert O Collins
A History of Sudan
by Robert O Collins
It’s probably the best narrative academic study of the country ever produced. He manages to draw a lot of his own scholarship and other people’s books together to get a comprehensive view of the country. Although he was writing before the conflict in Darfur, there’s an appendix dealing with the causes of the war there, so he gives us an understanding of it. It’s also the best book on internal Sudanese politics.
The Nile
by Robert O Collins
It is almost a biography of the Nile – from its farthest headwaters to the Mediterranean. Throughout the book Collins provides pieces of human and geological history and the stories of the engineers and technocrats who tried for 200 years to exploit it.
Interviews where books by Robert O Collins were recommended
The best books on The Nile, recommended by Dan Morrison
Journalist and author of The Black Nile, who spent six months travelling the famous river, discusses some of the turbulent times that the Nile has witnessed – and praises its extraordinary beauty.
The best books on Sudan, recommended by Richard Cockett
The Economist’s Africa editor chooses histories of Sudan, Africa’s biggest country, as well as the very personal stories of a child slave and a child soldier who was committing atrocities only a decade ago
