Egyptian intellectuals who criticized European racism still denied the Sudan any independent past

Evidence

Ibrahïm Fawzï may have been the most honest in his acceptance of the contradiction inherent in the colonized colonizer, but nothing offended him as deeply as being identified as the slave of a Sudanese. Ahmad Lutfï al-Sayyid was the most candid in his discussion of racial prejudice in Egypt, but for him as well, the Sudan and the Sudanese had no past independent of Egypt. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1063

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Concise, dense demonstration that anti-colonial critique itself reproduces the colonizer’s hierarchy when the critic stands above another colonized group — worth sitting with as a model of layered coloniality.
• XREF: Echoes the reader’s broader framework connecting Egyptian vs Sudanese colonial experience to shades of African coloniality.