Colonial stereotypes of the Sudan persisted unchanged from before 1821 through the 1920s

Evidence

The nudity of this “Sudan” is striking, but there are also considerable complexities covered up in the cartoon. This stereotyped triptych of Egypt, Great Britain, and the Sudan was constructed over the decades that their complex colonial relationship endured. While the figures of Britain and Egypt had changed between 1881 and 1925, stereotypes of the Sudan— oversexed, underclothed, and beyond the structures of either British or Egyptian morality—remained powerful and surprisingly unchanged. As I show in this study, such stereotypes had existed even before Muhammad `Alï’s armies conquered the Sudan in 1821, and they obviously continued to resonate with Egyptian readers and audiences through the 1920s. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1058

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader African coloniality framework — shows how stereotypes predate actual colonial conquest, serving as pre-justification for it.