Egyptian nationalism combined anti-British resistance with its own recolonizing ambitions in Sudan

Evidence

The trial revealed Egyptian nationalism at a peculiar nexus: Egypt was colonized by the British and yet often eager to recolonize the Sudanese in some way or another. The racial constructions inherent in these circumstances were also complex. Shaghlüb, the Bedouin slave trader, could claim a slave as his wife with none of the taboo of racial miscegenation that a similar marriage would have borne in Great Britain or the United States. Still, she was a slave. Higher up the economic and social ladder, the pashas and their defenders reformulated the intimacy of their connections to the slave women in a more paternalistic and political framework, in which the boundaries of difference are bridged by the civilizing mission. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 54

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the stated reading purpose: the colonized-but-colonizer status of Egypt versus Sudan, a classic nested-coloniality case echoing wider African and Indian (princely states) patterns.
• SEED: Angle: nested colonialities — how a colonized elite becomes a junior colonial power and outdoes the metropole’s own racism or softens it via paternalist civilizing missions.