Ahfad University for Women (Arabic: جامعة الأحفاد للبنات, romanized: Jāmiʻat al-Aḥfād lil-Banāt) is a private women's university in Omdurman, Sudan[1] that was founded in 1966, by Yusuf Badri, son of the Mahdist soldier Babiker Badri.
[3] Ahfad University for Women was founded in a familial tradition of educating girls in Sudan.
In 1904, he asked the British authorities for permission to open an elementary school for girls — who he believed also needed to be educated.
His request was denied twice, before it was finally granted by James Currie, the Director of the Educational Department of the British administration in Sudan.
[4][5] The Badri family carried on this tradition of private education for three generations in Sudan.