Mohammad el-Mahdi el-Majzoub

Muhammad el-Mahdi el-Magzoub (1919–1982) was born in El-Damar, northern Sudan, to a renowned Sufi family. He graduated from the School of Accountancy at Gordon Memorial College (now the University of Khartoum). El-Magzoub was a transgenerational poet who tackled virtually all forms of poetry, from the classical to taf ’ila all the way to prose poetry. He is widely regarded as the godfather of the “Jungle and the Desert” group, which espoused a third way apart from the Arabism and Africanism in Sudanese culture. El-Magzoub left behind ten collections of poetry.