Both British and Egyptian publics competed to pose as African peoples’ civilizing saviors.

Evidence

For several weeks, however, these women had appeared like mirrors before the Egyptian and British public, reflecting how deeply both cultures had invested in the image of the civilizing savior of African peoples.The figures of these women also reflected the fears of both societies: British anxieties about black women as agents of sexual licentiousness and crime; Egyptian fears of being identified with these women, of being uncivilized, of being made slaves to the British. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 715

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s comparative coloniality question: both empires deployed the same civilizing discourse against each other, with black women as the contested object.