Al-Amin Abu-Manga was born in Maiurno (
Sennar State) in 1951, to a
Fulani family. He began his higher education at the University of Khartoum (1970-1976), and studied in France before finally completing a Ph.D. at the
University of Marburg in Germany. He has been Head of the Department of Sudanese and African Languages, Institute of African and Asian Studies,
University of Khartoum since 1991. ==Linguistic research==