Ahfad University for Women is a private

Private school

Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...

 women's university

Women's college

Women's colleges in higher education are undergraduate, bachelor's degree-granting institutions, often liberal arts colleges, whose student populations are composed exclusively or almost exclusively of women...

 in Omdurman

Omdurman

Omdurman is the second largest city in Sudan and Khartoum State, lying on the western banks of the River Nile, opposite the capital, Khartoum. Omdurman has a population of 2,395,159 and is the national centre of commerce...

, Sudan

Sudan

Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...

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The history of the Ahfad University for Women reaches back to 1907 when Sheik Babiker Bedri established Sudan's first private school. Even more remarkable than its establishment was the fact that the school was for girls only. It was most likely the first private school for girls in Africa.
From then on, Sheik Babiker (1860-1954) and his son, Yusuf (1912-1995), expanded private education for boys and girls, culminating with the establishment of the Ahfad University College for Women by professor Yusuf in 1966.