For generations of Sudanese women, cotton meant money of their own. Grandmothers spun raw fibres into thread and sold it, granting women who might otherwise have no income a degree of independence. It was also one of Sudan’s great colonial commodities, grown...

For generations of Sudanese women, cotton meant money of their own. Grandmothers spun raw fibres into thread and sold it, granting women who might otherwise have no income a degree of independence. It was also one of Sudan’s great colonial commodities, grown...

For generations of Sudanese women, cotton meant money of their own. Grandmothers spun raw fibres into thread and sold it, granting women who might otherwise have no income a degree of independence. It was also one of Sudan’s great colonial commodities, grown...

For generations of Sudanese women, cotton meant money of their own. Grandmothers spun raw fibres into thread and sold it, granting women who might otherwise have no income a degree of independence. It was also one of Sudan’s great colonial commodities, grown...

For generations of Sudanese women, cotton meant money of their own. Grandmothers spun raw fibres into thread and sold it, granting women who might otherwise have no income a degree of independence. It was also one of Sudan’s great colonial commodities, grown...