Abdallah Bakr Mustafa (Arabic: عبد الله بكر مصطفى), O.B.E. was a Sudanese officer and politician.[1][2] He left the army in 1928. After leaving the military he became the nazir of the central Gedaref area. Later he became the nazir of Dar Bakr.[1] During the Second World War Abdallah Bakr led a force of irregulars, nicknamed 'Banda Bakr', fighting on the British side.[3]

In 1944, he was appointed to the Advisory Council for the Northern Sudan.[4] He was one of the indirectly elected members of the Legislative Assembly for the 1948–1953 term.[5] In the 1953 legislative election he was elected to the House of Representatives from Gedaref South as an Umma Party candidate.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c Niblock, Tim. Class and Power in Sudan: The Dynamics of Sudanese Politics, 1898-1985. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. p. 66
  2. ^ Blattner, Elwyn James. Who's who in U.A.R and the Near East. Paul Barbey Press, 1956. p. 221
  3. ^ Jackson, H. C. The Fighting Sudanese
  4. ^ Daly, Martin W., and Jane R. Hogan. Images of Empire: Photographic Sources for the British in the Sudan. Leiden: Brill, 2005. p. 133
  5. ^ Niblock, Tim. Class and Power in Sudan: The Dynamics of Sudanese Politics, 1898-1985. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. p. 64