Al-Taher was born in Affad,
Northern State,
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan,
Egypt. He lost fingers of his left hand while working in a textile factory in 1962. He studied music and theater in the
Sudan University of Science and Technology and graduated in 1982, then he had a master's degree from the
Cairo University in 2000, and a PhD from the Sudan University in 2008. Known as
Captain Kabo, he is considered the pioneer of theater of deaf people in Sudan and won the Award for Superior Performance of the Spanish Festival of the Deaf in 2003. Al-Taher died from
COVID-19 on 1 January 2021, during the
COVID-19 pandemic in Sudan. == See also ==