Egypt’s nationalism and Sudan’s conquest were politically divergent in 1910

Evidence

In fact, the two experienced the political and economic circumstances of 1910 through 1919 very differently. Whereas Egypt had by then a well-established tradition of nationalism, the Sudan had only recently been conquered by Great Britain, and any national voice there remained muted. Whereas the Sudan faced the challenges of recovering from years of famine and the great losses of life suffered by the Mahdist forces in 1899, Egypt’s relative prosperity was overshadowed by the continued and deepening entrenchment of British control over the political system. While Egyptian nationalists lamented the loss of Egypt’s participation in the governing of the Sudan under the terms of the Anglo- Egyptian Condominium, British officials in the Sudan were implementing an educational and political system in which the Muslim communities of the north were separated from non-Muslim tribes in the south. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 781

Categorization

• XREF: The north-south separation in Sudan is the classic ‘divide and rule’ example that connects to comparative colonial administration literature.
• SHARE: The famine losses suffered by Mahdist forces in 1899 as a distinct Sudanese historical burden is worth sending to a history-focused reader.