 He graduated in Fine and Applied Arts from Khartoum Technical Institute in 1958, the following year winning a scholarship to London to study ceramics at the Central School of Arts and Crafts.He did postgraduate studies in industrial pottery design at the North Staffordshire College of Ceramics, after which he had a period of training in chemical analyses of ceramics materials at the North Staffs College of Ceramics Technology.He went back to Sudan to teach ceramics for some years, but decided to return to England in 1966 to pursue his career in Britain.