Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim
| Fatima | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim |
| Born | 1933 Sudan |
| Origin | Omdurman Sudan |
| Died | 12 August 2017 (aged 83–84) London, UK |
| Years active | 1940s–2000s |
Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim (1933 – 12 August 2017), Arabic: فاطمة أحمد إبراهيم, Sudanese writer, women rights activist and Socialist leader.
Ibrahim was born in 1933 in Khartoum. She came from an educated family; her grandfather was headmaster at the first Sudanese School for boys as well as Imam at his neighborhood's mosque. Fatima's father graduated from Gordon Memorial College and worked as a teacher. Fatima's mother was amongst the first generation of girls who attended the school. Fatima grew up during the time of colonial Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Her father was expelled from teaching in a government school when he refused to teach lessons using English. After that her father moved to teach in a popular school.
After she started at Omdurman Girls' Secondary School she began to support women's rights. She created a wall newspaper called Elra'edda, or in Arabic الرائدة or in English Pioneer girls. Her newspaper focused on women's rights and she also wrote in newspapers at that time again under a pen name. Fatima conducted the first women's strike in Sudan because her school administration decided to cancel science lessons and replaced them by 'family science' lessons. The strike was successful. Her activities went beyond school; in 1947 she founded the Intellectual Women's Association, and in 1952 she worked with other women and founded Aletahad Elnees'y Alsodanni or Arabic الاتحاد النسائي السوداني or Sudanese Women's Union, where she served on the executive committee; then a sphere of action of the Women's Union opened membership to all women in Sudan and the WU opened branches in different provinces in Sudan. The agenda of the Women's Union at that time, according to an amendment to its constitution in 1954, focused on the right to vote, women's suffrage, and the right of women to act as representatives in all legislative, political, and administrative corporations. At the WU she also worked to establish equality with men in wages and technical training, and helped to remove illiteracy among women. Because of the WU's objectives, there occurred clashes with the political right such as Jabihat El-methaiq elaslami or the Islamic Pledge Front. In 1955 Fatima became a chief editor of Sawat al-Maraa Magazine or Woman's Voice Magazine (published by the Women's Union), and this magazine later played an essential role in the overthrow of the Ibrahim Abboud regime.
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