Abdul Hakim Al-Taher

Abdul Hakim Al-Taher (; 1949 – 1 January 2021) was a Sudanese theater director and actor.
Biography.
Al-Taher was born in Affad, Northern state. 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 of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sudan on 1 January 2021.