his remarks to Miss Evans. "In response I asked him why he had selected this inspectress for the girls' schools and related how she had treated his wife. Thereupon he dropped the matter without further censure." In 1943 the school moved from Rufaa to Omdurman, across the Nile from Khartoum, and a companion high school for boys was established. In 1991 the Al Ahfad girls' school was transformed into a college and then into the University of that name by Yusuf Badri, Babikr Bedri's son. Autobiography Babikr Bedri's autobiography My Life (1961) is considered a Sudanese classic. It is an important source on the history of Sudan in the Mahdist era and the subsequent period of British colonization. These memoirs have been partially translated into English. A first volume (published in 1969) covers the years from Bedri's boyhood in the mid-19th century until the fall of Omdurman in 1898. The second volume appeared in 1980 and covers the period from 1898 to 1927. - As Babikr Bedri himself commented: "An autobiography contains stories of many kinds, some of no account, except to amuse, and others of significance as examples to be followed or shunned." Family and descendants Babikr Bedri's son Yusuf Bedri continued his work, and a grandson, Gasim Badri, became the present president of Ahfad University for Women (AUW). In his long life, Babikr Bedri had five wives and 21 children. His granddaughter Balghis Badri is a feminist activist, and professor of social anthropology at Ahfad University for Women. One of his many descendants is his great-granddaughter, the BBC news presenter and broadcaster Zeinab Badawi. In a 2018 interview, she talked about her great-grandfather Babiker Badri: Legacy and significance Babikr Bedri was "a pioneer of modern education in a traditional context" write the editors of his first volume of memoirs in English, "and a remarkable personality". From the beginning of the 20th century until his death in 1954 - his age is uncertain, he was either 94 or 98 - he was, in their words, "the outstanding figure in Sudanese education and one of the best known Sudanese intellectuals". References Sources Babikr Bedri, My Life Story (1961), in 3 volumes, Khartoum: Egypt Press. (In Arabic) Bedri, Y. & G. Scott, translators (1969), The Memoirs of Babikr Bedri. Vol. 1. London: Oxford University Press. Bedri, Y. & P. Hogg, translators (1980), The Memoirs of Babikr Bedri. Vol. 2. London: Ithaca