Sudan is considered one of the first Arab countries to break the social barrier, especially in rural areas. The first girls’ school was opened in 1903 in the city of Rafaa in the center of the country by Babiker Badri, who subsequently contributed to laying strong foundations for women’s education in all scientific and humanitarian fields.
Although this year’s exams were distinguished from others by many exciting events, as a female student went into labor and gave birth to a baby during the last session that was dedicated to the English language exam, what was remarkable was the sitting of a 74-year-old woman to take the exam.
Hajja Zahra Hassan, who sat for the exam at the age of seventy-four, and is the grandmother of a number of grandchildren, some of whom have passed university, explains that the aim of her insistence on continuing her education at this advanced age is that she wants to encourage Sudanese women to adhere to education and benefit from the old legacy that he founded. Babiker Badri at the beginning of the last century.
Hajja Zahra told “Sky News Arabia” that women’s education is one of the important elements for developing societies, noting that she wants to continue her education “to contribute in the future to more interest in girls’ education by establishing an integrated educational institution that helps rural girls and women whose social and economic conditions prevented them from continuing their education.” their education.”
In the same context, Nafsya Badri, a university professor and granddaughter of Babiker Badri, a pioneer in women’s education in Sudan, believes that “it is natural and important for women in Sudan to seek to educate themselves, regardless of the circumstances or social conditions surrounding them.”
Badri points out that the return of the elderly, such as Hajja Zahra, to study seats “confirms the solidity of the culture of women’s education in Sudan from a very early age”, as her grandfather established a school for girls and enrolled his daughters and the daughters of his relatives more than a century ago, which contributed to breaking many of the rules of society. Al-Sudani, who was refusing to enroll girls in schools at the time.
The Sudanese Academy adds that her grandfather “later contributed to the development of girls’ education in a qualitative manner, as he founded the Ahfad University in Omdurman (one of the three cities of the capital, Khartoum), which provided the country’s civil service with a large number of women cadres in the fields of applied sciences and humanities.”
She says that “it is the state’s duty to continue paying attention to girls’ education, because that provides solutions to many of the social and economic problems facing Sudanese society.”
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