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]
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]