Author: Beasley, Ina
Title: Before the Wind Changed. People, Places & Education in the Sudan
Description: Oxford / New York, Oxford University Press, (1992). orig. cloth. xxiv,483,(12)p, 24x16cm, Series: The British Academy, Oriental & African Archives, 1.. 12 photoplates,textual maps.. Minor rubbing, slight corner bumps, VG. ¶ Memoir of the Sudan Government Service Superintendent, Girls' Education [ later: Controller, Girls' Education] , ca. 1939 - 1950. ["This is an authentic & sensitive record of the work of a British woman educationalist in the Sudan in the 1940s & forms an unrivalled source for the development of girls' education in an African country before the wind of change blew through the continent. As Controller...Dr. Beasley undertook many gruelling tours of inspection, venturing to the remotest parts of the country..." -dustwrapper blurb]. Contents: The First Few Weeks; The Nile in the North; The West; The Blue Nile; The East; More People Including a Visit to Aba Island; The South; History & Survey of Girls' Education in the Sudan; Special Problems; Appendices: 'Female Circumcision'; Shillukh, Scarring of the Cheeks; Girls' Education in the Condominium; Staff of the Education Department; Extracts from Dr. Beasley's Diaries on Girls' Education.

Keywords: Sudan, Colonial, Administration, Girls' Education, Anthropology, British Colonialism, Africa, Female Sociology, Social History