Salah Ahmed Ibrahim

Salah Ahmed Ibrahim (Arabic: صلاح أحمد إبراهيم‎, 1933–15 May 1993, Omdurman, Sudan), was a Sudanese literary writer, poet and diplomat. He is considered as one of the most important Sudanese poets of the first generation after the country's independence.

Life and political activity

Ibrahim graduated from the University of Khartoum, Faculty of Arts, and, from 1965 to 1966, he taught at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana. He maintained an involvement in politics, and was eventually appointed Sudanese Ambassador to Algeria.[1]

His sister Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim was a leading parliamentarian and a campaigner for women's rights.[2]

Literary works

In a literary study about Sudanese poetry, Salah Ibrahim was described as "the most important Sudanese poet of his generation", as "in his poetry, there is all the yearning, all the frustration of his generation. He writes his poetry with miraculous ease and beauty."[3] Ibrahim was also noted for his socialist realist fiction, of which he was a notable proponent.[4]

Selected works
  • Gha'bat El-Abanois, Arabic غابة الأبنوس or Ebony Forest, poetry collection.
  • Gha'dbat El-Heba'y, Arabic غضبة الهبباى or Rage of El-Heba'y, poetry collection.

See also

References
  1. p. 276, Mom K. N. Arou, B. Yongo-Bure, North-South relations in the Sudan since the Addis Ababa Agreement, 1989, Institute of African and Asian Studies, University of Khartoum. Section reads:
    "To begin with the relevant factors which are believed to be the causes of the North-South Conflict are remarkably fitted into the historical context in a poem entitled 'Malual', by Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, former Sudanese Ambassador to Algeria. The relevant parts of the poem read..."
  2. Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim, MoralHeroes, Retrieved 30 September 2016
  3. el Shoush, Muhammad Ibrahim (1963). "Some Background Notes on Modern Sudanese Poetry". Sudan Notes and Records. 44: 21–42. ISSN 0375-2984. JSTOR 41716840.
  4. p. 641, Helene Henderson, Laurie Lanzen Harris, Jay P. Pederson, Twentieth-century Literary Movements Dictionary, 2000, Omnigraphics
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