The University of Khartoum is the oldest and largest university in Sudan, including multiple co-educational campuses. The university has a fascinating history, tracing Sudan’s journey to independence and beyond, educating many of Sudan’s pioneering men and women in various fields and establishing overseas academic relations. As a result, the archives of this institution indeed constitute an important heritage of Sudan.

The University of Khartoum was founded as Gordon Memorial College in 1902 and established as a public university in 1956, when Sudan gained Independence. Since then, the University of Khartoum has been recognised as a top university and a high ranked academic institution in Sudan and Africa. The university includes twenty-one colleges, one school and a deanship of distance learning, twelve institutes, ten research and training centers, a printing and publishing house and a main library, including the Sudan Library and branch libraries in the various faculties.  The university also includes a Natural History Museum and six research chairs: UNESCO Chair for Desertification and Desert Cultivation Studies, UNESCO Chair for Turkish Studies, UNESCO Chair for Bioethics, UNESCO Chair for Gum Arabic, UNESCO Chair for Nano, and UNESCO Chair for Archeology.  Further to this, the university includes four teaching hospitals: Soba University Hospital, Medical and Health Services Hospital, Saad Abu El-Ela Hospital and Dr Salma Dialysis Center.

Considering that the archives of the University of Khartoum constitute such an important heritage of Sudan, the University of Khartoum was accordingly one of the first Sudanese institutions to collaborate with Sudan Memory. In 2018 it was the first site for delivery of scanning equipment and training through the project. Recordings have since been made of various library collections, the university’s Sudan Library being the most significant library collection in Sudan, and of the Natural History Museum collection.