enthusiasm for the contributions that the British had made to the lives of colonial people." Describing the misconduct of Chevron's British contractors toward southern Sudanese, he wrote, nostalgically: "These are not the Gentlemen from Oxbridge with whom we associate the British." Private life Robert ("Bob") Collins owned a yellow Beetle. In 1972, he married Janyce Hutchins (1934-2005), a university administrator and "gifted astrologer." They traveled frequently together in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. Bibliography Collins wrote 35 books, numerous encyclopedia entries, and more than one hundred scholarly articles and book chapters. He also frequently collaborated with other authors, most notably Francis Deng and J. Millard Burr. Books Co-Authored and co-edited books Notes References British colonisation in Africa British Empire History of Africa 1933 births 2008 deaths 20th-century British historians Dartmouth College alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford Yale University alumni History of South Sudan Historians of Africa