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,...