Rare image in sub-Saharan African countries- A father with his four daughters attending a one university.

As UNESCO showed in 2009, Somalia is a country where the literacy rate of female adults is 25.8%, cultural issues and some other factors leads to low level of girls education, mostly, the parents of Somalis particularly those who live in the rural areas prefer to get family assistance from girls instead of sending them to education centers, in rural and some places of the urban areas the girls are busy with the work of the house including laundry, cooking and etc.

Yusuf aybakar shador is a father who was one of the engineering students of Somali national university before the destruction of the country in 1991, at that time he was junior stage {third year} of the university, but unfortunately he couldn’t able to finish it because of civil wars broke out in the country.

It was surprise that he rejoined the Somali national university when it reopened in 2014, once he was asked the reason that he didn’t enroll the other universities, he answers that the other universities are mostly less quality, now he is a student of the faculty of law and he is in his third year of the university.

Not only him, his four other daughters are also attend the same university, Fatima Yusuf is a student of faculty of medicine, and she is her third year, also Naima is a student of the faculty of engineering and similarly to Fatima, she is in her third year of the university, Muno who studies economics and Iman who studies education are also in their first {fresh year} of the university.

The last weeks, an interview he gives to international media including BBC, VOA and Al-Jazeera, he told how he is happy to be student of Somali national university with his four daughters, also he gave interview to other local and international media, and many articles, about this interesting story was published,

Following with this event, we can benefit from it many things, including that:

·         Educating the girls is something very important

·         That there are in Africa specially Somalis, fathers who preferred to educate their girls instead of making them uneducated,

·         That there is no an excuse for being uneducated weather it is age, the need of the help of girls at home and etc.

Finally, this is hope for girls around the world.