| Collapse of a Country : A Diplomat's Memoir of South Sudan Coghlan Nicholas : Nicholas Coghlan, author of The Saddest Country: On Assignment in Colombia, is the former consul general in Cape Town (South Africa) for Canada. He left this post in 2005 to sail the South Atlantic and South Pacific with his wife on their 8-metre sloop, BNicholas Coghlan, author of Far in the Waste Sudan and The Saddest Country, served in five Canadian embassies overseas before he was appointed Canada's first resident ambassador to South Sudan. He lives on his sailboat in Canada's Pacific Northwest. |