Before the Wind Changed: People, Places and Education in the Sudan

by Ina Beasley

An authentic and sensitive record, this book chronicles the work of a British woman educationalist in the Sudan in the 1940s, and 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 of Girls' Education, Ina Beasley undertook many gruelling tours of inspection, venturing to the remotest parts of the country, and her account provides the modern reader...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197261108
• ISBN13: 9780197261101
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 524 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"