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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.ISNI
Alban, A.H.ISNI
Johnson, Douglas H.ISNI
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.
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