Dr. Rogaia Abusharaf talks about the leading role Sudanese women have played in movements for peace and justice from the early 1920s to the recent Sudanese revolution. Dr. Abusharaf also...

Women, like the poet Mihera Bit Abboud, mobilised men against the Turko-Egyptian colonial invasion of Sudan in the 1920s and Anglo-Egyptian rule in the 1950s.

Historians of Sudan have documented many cases of Sudanese women, who struggled against colonialism even before the beginning of women’s access to primary formal education in the early twentieth century.

For centuries Sudanese women have been pushing the boundaries of the patriarchal society, excelling in fields almost always dominated by men despite the difficulties they face. We searched for the women making an impact today both nationally and internationally, in all different fields: health, environment, women’s rights, arts, filmmaking ...

I argue that Sudanese women have politically engaged in the pan-African anti-colonial struggle for liberation, promotion of cooperation, unity, stability and human rights in all African nations, and that they have also actively participated in post–independence national political agendas.