A BIOGAPHY OF RIVER
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It is more important than ever to understand the economic, political
and cultural role of the River Nile. This book has been written in the belief that
such a mighty river, running from the heart of Africa to the Mediterranean and
crossing the borders of ten countries comprising more than 300 million people,
deserves an extensive, multidisciplinary bibliography, presenting in one book,
what has been said about her.
The Nile has intrigued people, historians and poets since the days of
Cheops up to the present day and will continue to be at the heart of regional
economy, politics and culture in the decades and centuries ahead. This most
famous of all famous rivers has been described in the ancient stories of Herodotus
and in the travel notes of Arab scholars and European explorers, and in the many
modern books about Nile geology, Nile hydrology, Nile dams and Nile politics.
The present bibliography demonstrates the enormous scope and the usefulness of
this literature and of the research that has been carried out in the past. Different
libraries and different web sites may have good collections of Nile studies, but
most often they have both systematic and non-systematic biases; only certain
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disciplines, fields or historic periods are covered. Therefore, in order to help
deepen our understanding of present developments and to optimise future
planning of what is increasingly regarded as a scarce and vital resource, it isviii
thought useful to present a more complete, all-inclusive overview of literature on
the riverZs physical character and the varying political, economic, social and
cultural roles it plays for a number of societies. Such a broad bibliography may
help overcome some unhelpful perspectives that have been nurtured by narrower
national, social or disciplinary concerns, and by neglect of past experiences.
Today the importance of the River Nile is more evident than ever, and
the way it is used and managed is the subject of heated debates among citizens
and political leaders in the entire Nile basin and beyond. Millions upon millions
look to the river for their drinking water, for the irrigation of crops, as a source of
power, and as an object of cultural veneration and pride. Governments are
preparing plans for further Nile control to secure development and growth, while
both local statesmen and international institutions are searching for diplomatic
solutions to avoid open conflicts about the sharing of Nile waters. If the Nile basin
countries are to pursue cooperation and develop a long-term legal and institutional
framework for river management, and thus reap the gains of cooperation and a
more shared water vision, the dissemination of information about the river to all
countries in the basin is crucial. This bibliography should ease the access to
literature on the Nile and help stimulate a Nile discourse which is based on solid
knowledge.
This bibliography is also thought to be of use to people interested in
the general history of the Nile valley, due to the importance of the river in
influencing and framing societal formations and political developments, and to
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people interested in the history of water in general. Some of the most ambitious
water projects ever conceived by man have been planned and implemented in the
Nile basin. What was for a while the biggest reservoir in the world – the Aswan
Dam – came into operation in 1902. The Makwar Dam was finished in 1925 and
created the biggest cotton farm in the world, the Gezira scheme. The Jonglei
Canal project, first conceived at the end of the 19th century and the subject of
numerous official government plans since then, aimed at digging a “new Nile”
360 kilometers long around the swamps in the Southern Sudan, yet still the plan is
not implemented. The Aswan High Dam, Colonel Nasser’s decisive imprint on the
modern history of the Nile and the Nile valley, created the biggest man-made lakeix
on earth, and was supposed to turn Egypt into the Japan of the Middle East. Plans
for reservoirs on Lake Tana in Ethiopia, put forward by the late Emperor Haile
Selassie, have been discussed for decades by His MajestyZs Government in
London, American firms, Egyptian kings and the Sudan government. And finally;
the dam building activities on Lake Victoria and Lake Albert in Uganda have
been of great importance to the history of the whole region, from the Great Lakes
Region to Egypt. Additionally, the Nile basin, the ancient birthplace of
astronomy, has during the last century or so witnessed an enormous amount of
research on hydrology and climate, of relevance to river basin studies in general.
In a situation where the growing water crisis in the world has become
familiar to all, and international organisations have issued warnings that future
wars may be fought over the issue of fresh water, a bibliography about the Nile is
thought timely and relevant. Firstly because the river has an extraordinarily rich
and complex history of hydropolitics and political ecology (the Nile basin was for
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example the first international river basin where modern states entered into
agreements about the sharing of waters), and secondly; the literature shows how
simple models of water sharing, alarmism and wishful thinking have been
counterproductive.
The compilation of this bibliography started in the early 1980s. I was
working on a Masters thesis about the history of the Jonglei Canal in Southern
Sudan and became very fascinated by what I gradually understood was an epic
and immensely dramatic topic. I decided that I would try to write a narrative of
the history of the entire Nile basin; how it was changed by human action and how
the river system has made an impact on economic, social and political
developments from the 1880s. This book, The River Nile in the Age of the British.
A Case Study in Water Politics and Political Ecology on a Grand Scale, is now
finished. But as part of this work I have tried to register and annotate literature on
the Nile. Parallel to the work on the Nile-bibliography I have completed another
bibliography covering a certain geographical part of the Nile Valley; the south
Sudan, the home of the Jonglei Canal, or the Garstin Cut, as it was called at the
beginning of the 20th century. The latter book is called An annotated bibliography
on the Southern Sudan, 1850-2000. It registers 6211 titles, out of which 3209 arex
annotated, and is supposed to register all kinds of literature on the region,
including literature related to the Nile issue. These three books form a whole; they
represent an attempt to stimulate research and interest in what goes on in the Nile
valley as well as to encourage research on man/water issues in general.
