<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Women on Kandaka</title><link>https://kandaka.com/tags/women/</link><description>Recent content in Women on Kandaka</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://kandaka.com/tags/women/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>The Cheapest Investment Sudan Can Make in Its People: Tackling Illiteracy</title><link>https://kandaka.com/ideas/illiteracy-sudan/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://kandaka.com/ideas/illiteracy-sudan/</guid><description>Six out of ten people in rural Sudan cannot read or write. Islam&amp;#39;s first word was Iqra — Read. Cuba eliminated illiteracy in eight months. Bolivia did it in three. Sudan can too, if it chooses to.</description></item><item><title>The Kandakat: Sudan's Ancient Queens and What They Built</title><link>https://kandaka.com/ideas/kandaka-nubian-queens/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://kandaka.com/ideas/kandaka-nubian-queens/</guid><description>The Kandakat — Nubia&amp;#39;s warrior queens — ran one of the ancient world&amp;#39;s most sophisticated economies: an iron industry that earned Meroe the title &amp;#39;Birmingham of Africa&amp;#39;, trade networks stretching from Rome to sub-Saharan Africa, and a state that negotiated with empires as an equal. Sudan is not a country learning development. It is a civilisation that was interrupted.</description></item></channel></rss>