The Upper Nile Province Handbook: A Report on People and Government in the Southern Sudan 1991

It also includes documentation on the origins of the Jonglei Canal one of the most controversial environmental engineering projects in modern Africa. With many of the regions previous governmental structures now obliterated by war this record of the beginnings of civil administration will be of immense value to South Sudanese and the new nation of South Sudan.Editorial ReviewsReview`fascinating book ... admirably researched Philip Lyon Roussel African Affairs July 1997 `Williss Handbook is ... more than most both a political and a personal document a swan-song to defend his policies as much as an objective description of his province ... a welcome addition to the historical record of the Condominium. Half a century late as the editor notes it provides striking commentary on events in a region even now in the throes of civil war. M.W. Daly Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Vol. 60 No. 2 97 `It replicates on a grand scale many of the features of the (unpublished) District Books and handing-over notes of other colonial territories. We all owe a debt to Johnson and the British Academy for making the handbook available not merely as a source but also as a memorial to a world whose contradictions remain even while its substance is fast being overlaid or destroyed by forces more ruthless than amateur ethnographers and ex-military administrators. Richard Waller Bucknell University Lewisburg PA Journal of African History Vol. 38 - 1997About the AuthorDouglas H. Johnson Research Fellow St Anthonys College Oxford.