Egyptian anti-Sudanese stereotypes were replaced by silencing Sudanese self-assertion

Evidence

Such social sensitivity redefined the image of the Sudanese; ironically, Lutfï al-Sayyid’s rupture with the stereotypes allowed no room for dissenting Sudanese voices. Both the figure of the Mahdï, who represented by far the loudest Sudanese voice Egyptians had ever heard, and the state he created, which had lasted almost fifteen years, were diminished to mere dots on the historical record for the sake of family peace. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 774

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: This is a striking irony: inclusivist nationalism still functions as erasure — the generosity is on Egyptian terms and dissolves the Mahdi’s sovereignty into a footnote. Worth sitting with.