ABSTRACT
Educational statistics at the close of the Condominium, of government schools for boys and girls, show a greater disparity than is usual, even for underdeveloped countries. Education for girls, it was felt, should improve the quality of Sudanese family life. The standard of material comfort in the average home was low compared with that in Western Europe. Pharaonic circumcision was practised on young girls and it was the women who performed the operation. Girls were to be educated according to the Government ‘to prevent them from impeding the general progress of the Sudan’. People approved of increased nursing, domestic, needlecraft and child-welfare skills, and prejudice began to give way to interest in girls’ schools. Girls’ education had to take second place again. Meanwhile in the late 1940s and early 1950s the demand for more education for women gathered more and more momentum.
