Ahmad Muhammad Salih

The First Sudanese Sovereignty Council (not including Ahmad Muhammad Salih), from right to left: Ahmad Muhammad Yasin, al-Dardiri Muhammad Uthman, Abd al-Fattah Muhammad al-Maghribi, and Siricio Iro Wani

Saleh was known for his patriotic poetry against colonialism during the period of condominium rule in Sudan, and he reached the point of clashing with the British administration in several matters and the decisions it imposed on the country, especially when he refused to obey an order from the administration requiring school teachers to wear the jubbah and kaftan instead of the French uniform. He was a capable orator who preached in both Arabic and English.[2]

Sudan gained its independence on 1 January 1956 from the Anglo-Egyptian condominium rule, with a presidential system of government, a five-member Sovereignty Council, and a parliamentary system.[5][6][7] The Sovereignty Council was formed and it included: Ahmad Muhammad Salih, Ahmad Muhammad Yasin (National Unionist Party), Dardiri Muhammad Uthman (Opposition Parties), Abd al-Fattah Muhammad al-Maghribi, and Siricio Iro Wani (Southern Liberal Party).[8] The council was dissolved after the 1958 Sudanese coup d'état.

Among his most famous poems is the poem "We are the soldiers of God, the soldiers of the nation," which was published in his collection With the Free, and later became the national anthem of Sudan and Sudan Defence Force, the nucleus of the current Sudanese Armed Forces anthem.[12][13] Then the first four verses were chosen to form the poetic text of the music of the Sudanese Republican Peace. During independence, which was composed and composed by Colonel Ahmed Morgan, and later became the Sudanese national anthem.[14][15]