July 6, 2007

Once Radical, a Sudanese Institution Has Changed Its Approach

By MEGAN LINDOW

Of all the countries in sub-Saharan Africa, none has played a greater role in advancing Islamic higher education than Sudan. And of all the Islamic universities in the region, none has a more controversial, and complicated, history than Sudan's International University of Africa.

Tucked away behind tall gates on a dusty road here in the capital, the university traces its political roots to a 1989 military coup that brought to power an Islamist regime with ideological ambitions for the

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