Country report - Sudan

Abstract

The Sudan was under foreign rule, hence other than Sudanese were the architects of economic and social policy. Concerning girl’s education, no marked attention was given by the authorities, and the people on their part did not recognize the importance of educating women at a time when men’s education was at its infancy. The first census carried out in January 1965, showed that 77 per cent of the male population was illiterate and 96 per cent of the female population was illiterate. That was the situation when the foreign rule left our country.