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Sudan’s Hawa: the banat come of age

By Magdi El Gizouli Hawa Jah al-Rasool, better known as Hawa al-Tagtaga, passed away on 10 December in Khartoum. Born around 1924 in northern Kordofan Hawa moved to the capital at the tender age of 14 years to begin the … read more »

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