Bakri Bilal, a Sudanese artist and art teacher, was born in Omdurman near Khartoum in 1943. His youth was influenced by his family's interest in art, education and the media, and the multi-faceted ethnicities of the people in the city markets. He attended The College of Fine and Applied Art in Khartoum where he graduated in 1967 with an Honours degree in painting, followed by a diploma in educatio