Abd an-Nabi Abd al-Qadir Mursal
Abd an-Nabi Abd al-Qadir Mursal (
Arabic: عبد النبي عبد القادر مرسال ;1918–1962) was a Sudanese poet and politician of Shilluk origin.[1][2] His father was Shilluk and his mother Egyptian.[1] He served as an army officer and government official.[2][3] He was an Arabic-language poet.[1]
He was a contributor to the Cairo literary weekly Al-Fajr.[4] In 1937 he founded the Black Hand Society in Cairo, a first attempt to Black identity politics.[4] However the Black Hand Society failed to gain traction as a political movement.[4]
When the
National Unionist Party candidate.[3] He was appointed to the National Constitutional Commission.[6]
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-136-17924-2.
- ^ a b c d Sikainga, Ahmad A. Slaves into Workers: Emancipation and Labor in Colonial Sudan. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1996. pp. 169-170
- ^ a b Niblock, Tim. Class and Power in Sudan: The Dynamics of Sudanese Politics, 1898-1985. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. p. 67
- ^ a b c Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Ḥayy (1976). Conflict and Identity: The Cultural Poetics of Contemporary Sudanese Poetry : a Paper. Institute of African & Asian Studies, University of Khartoum. p. 24.
- ISBN 978-1-56902-098-2.
- ISBN 978-0-06-490379-0.
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