Educated Sudanese emigrated to Egypt to bridge class divides with tribal masses

Evidence

Following an established trajectory of the sort described by Anderson, younger Sudanese emigrated to Egypt and the rest of the Arab world for their secular education.They hoped to acquire the tools to study their society more closely and to figure out ways to establish links between their class and the uneducated majority of Sudanese, who remained beholden to tribal shaykhs or Mahdists. The question of a united Sudanese voice was not to be resolved for decades, either in the Sudan itself or in Egypt. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1036

Categorization

• XREF: Directly echoes Benedict Anderson’s imagined-communities framework on colonial education and nationalism.