M.M Gaafar

El-Tigani el-Mahi (Arabic: التجاني الماحي; April 1911 – 8 January 1970) was a Sudanese scholar, academic, and a pioneer of African psychiatry. He played a major role in the country's struggle for independence from British colonial rule, and was the transitional president of Sudan after the Sudanese October 1964 Revolution. He was an avid collector of historical artefacts, and knowledgeable about Egyptology, and Sudan's history and literature.