After the departure of Griselda Al-Tayeb, the widow of the late Sudanese scholar Abdullah Al-Tayeb, who died last Friday in Khartoum, a video clip spread in which she talks about her last will before her death.
She revealed, in the circulating clip, while she was wandering in the family cemetery, where she expressed while holding her tears, her desire to be buried next to her late husband, in a touching and sad scene.
Griselda was born in Britain in March 1925, and studied at Chelsea School of Art in London. Later, she married Professor Abdullah Al-Tayeb, whom she met during his university studies in the British capital in 1945.
In 1950, she arrived in Sudan to live with her husband, where she moved with him to Juba, South Sudan, and Kano, Nigeria.
arts teaching
Then the young British woman worked as an art teacher in Sudan, and established a number of fine arts departments in the country’s schools and colleges.
She also showed a remarkable interest in Sudanese customs and traditions, and she has a book entitled “Folklore Customs in the Regions of Sudan”.
The authorship of this book came as a result of field research to collect and study the customs and traditions of a number of ethnic groups in the north and east of the country. The study contained an extensive and illustrated record of Sudanese national costumes.
Griselda and Abdullah Al-Tayeb
She was buried next to her husband
It is noteworthy that Griselda, who is considered the oldest British resident in Sudan, and a recipient of the Queen’s Medal of Britain in 2002, loved Sudan very much, and she left last Friday, and was buried in the Hillat Hamad Cemetery in Khartoum North alongside her late husband in implementation of her will.
As for the Sudanese scholar, Abdullah Al-Tayeb, he died in 2003, after a life full of literary achievements, headed by his valuable author “The Guide to Understanding and Making Arab Poetry”, in addition to his radio episodes on the interpretation of the Holy Qur’an and a number of poetry collections.