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]