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Arop Yor Ayik (1935 – June 1999) was aSouth Sudanese academic and politician.
He was born in Palo,Doleib Hill,Upper Nile State,South Sudan. He attended primary school at the American Mission at Doleib Hill and was baptized in 1948. From 1949 to 1952, he attendedAtar Intermediate School and from 1953 to 1958 attended Rumbek Government Secondary School in Southern Sudan. (Note: all Southern schools were closed down in 1955 due to the first civil war in Torit (South Sudan) in August 1955 which meant loss of one year for all students).
He subsequently attended theUniversity of Khartoum in Sudan from 1958 to 1962, studying English, special Arabic, Economics, History, and Philosophy and graduating with B.A. in special Arabic and Philosophy.[citation needed]
In 1986, he was awarded M.A. in TAFL (teaching Arabic as a foreign language) from theAmerican University in Cairo,Egypt.
As an educator, and according to the UNESCO Monograph 1951 and 1953, I advocate the bilingual system of education as the best option in any multilingual and multicultural societies for their unity, harmony and stability.
— Arop Yor Ayik, April 1996, Khartoum
Arop Yor Ayik was married. He had four daughters and two sons, all university graduates.
Arop Yor Ayik died in theNetherlands in 1999. He was buried in Sudan in June 1999.