British authorities in Khartoum blocked Sudanese nationalists from contacting the Egyptian Parliament

Evidence

The letter was promptly published in the newspaper al-Ahram. Here was another black man demonstrating the same kind of pride and cultural assertion seen in Osman abd al-Basit, a man writing articles and sending telegraphs of support for the Egyptian king to Parliament in the name of a new Sudanese political party. It seemed that the long-awaited Sudanese counterparts to Egyptian nationalism had at last arrived.While these Sudanese activists were first making themselves heard, the Egyptian Parliament created a Committee on Sudanese Affairs and, with Sad Zaghlül’s encouragement, tried with some success to reach out to Sudanese members of local parties. These attempts were echoed by Sudanese efforts to approach Parliament and other Egyptian organizations, but the British authorities in Khartoum either refused to grant individuals the necessary travel papers or arrested the petitioners. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1026

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s Egypt-vs-Sudan colonial toolkit comparison: British suppression of Sudanese-Egyptian political interchange through travel controls and arrests.