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Title: | The Upper Nile Province handbook: a report on peoples and government in the southern Sudan, 1931 |
Editors: | Willis, C.A. Alban, A.H. Johnson, Douglas H. |
Year: | 1995 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 476 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Oriental and African archives |
City of publisher: | Oxford |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
ISBN: | 0197261469 |
Geographic terms: | Sudan South Sudan Great Britain |
Subjects: | colonialism country studies (form) |
Abstract: | A handbook on the Upper Nile Province was compiled in 1931 by its Governor, Charles Willis, as an extended handing-over note on the province. This handbook, which focused exclusively on practical problems of administration, was never published. It forms the core of this volume, and consists of an introduction by Willis, his main report and proposals, and informative sections by local officials on Northern, Shilluk, Nasir, Akobo, Bor-Duk, Yirrol, Abwong, Zeraf Valley, and Western Nuer districts, as well as the town of Malakal and the Gambeila Enclave. The present volume also contains a summary account of the administrative history of the province up to 1926, Willis's own period as Governor, 1926-1931, a comparison between the Upper Nile Province at the end of the Condominium period and now, and an analysis of the handbook as an historical and ethnographic source. Two documents are included in the appendices: the handing-over notes by Willis's predecessor K.C.P. Struvé, and Willis's critique of the Egyptian irrigation schemes for his province, the precursor of the Jonglei Canal. |