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 Black Bloc (a political organization striving to protect the interests of Black Sudanese) was formed in Omdurman in 1948, he became general secretary of the organization.[5][2] He was one of the most prominent personalities of the Black Bloc in Wad Madani.[2] In the 1953 legislative election he was elected to the House of Representatives from the Malakal and Renk constituency as a National Unionist Party candidate.[3] He was appointed to the National Constitutional Commission.[6]

References
  1. Mansour Khalid (12 October 2012). War & Peace In The Sudan. Routledge. p. 65. ISBN 978-1-136-17924-2.
  2. Sikainga, Ahmad A. Slaves into Workers: Emancipation and Labor in Colonial Sudan. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1996. pp. 169-170
  3. Niblock, Tim. Class and Power in Sudan: The Dynamics of Sudanese Politics, 1898-1985. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. p. 67
  4. 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.
  5. Jay Spaulding; Stephanie Beswick (2000). White Nile, Black Blood: War, Leadership, and Ethnicity from Khartoum to Kampala. Red Sea Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-56902-098-2.
  6. Mohamed Omer Beshir (1975). The Southern Sudan: from conflict to peace. Barnes & Noble Books. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-06-490379-0.
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