An Egyptian intellectual saw Egypt’s own colonization as insurance against sharing Africa’s fate.

Evidence

It is important to remember that, of all the authors mentioned in this chapter, only `Alï Mubärak lived to see Egypt itself colonized by the British. Although he wrote the book in 1857, he published it in 1882, soon after the British occupied Egypt. … Had it not been for the presence of Europeans, Egyptians could easily have fallen into the same abyss that Mubärak saw engulfing the Africans. But in adopting their ways, this text seems to assert, Egyptians could gain the same power as Europeans and, like them, colonize other lands. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 284

Categorization

• QUESTION: Implies an internalized colonial logic where Egypt could escape subjugation only by becoming a colonizer itself — worth chasing further in comparative colonial literature.