Fatima Talib (Arabic: فاطِمة طالِب, born 1 January 1928) is a Sudanese educator and women's rights activist who convened the first women-only organisation in Sudan.
In 1948, with her friends and colleagues at Gordon Memorial College, Mahasin Abed Alaal and Khalda Zahir, Talib founded the Young Women's Cultural Society (Jam'ee'yat alfata'yat althaqa'fia) in Omdurman.
[2] In order to function, the society needed the support of the British authorities, so was advertised solely as a social concern, however it had political undertones.
It enabled women to mobilise to understand and protect their social, economic and civil rights.
[3] She was educated at Unity High School in Khartoum and from there was the first woman from Sudan to obtain a degree London University.