Egyptian nationalists regarded Sudan as an inseparable part of Egypt, not a colony.

Evidence

As an adult, Sharawï shared with other nationalists the duality about colonialism in the Sudan and the imperialism of Great Britain. An intimate of the Wafdist leaders and one of the most prominent women to join the nationalist cause during the 1919 revolution, Sharawï repeated all the Wafd’s ideas about the Sudan, saying, “We must hold on to our rights with respect to the issue of the Sudan, considering the Sudan an inseparable part of Egypt, and not a colony.” — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 856

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to broader scholarship on the ‘Unity of the Nile Valley’ ideology and how anti-colonial Egyptian nationalism reproduced its own internal colonialism toward Sudan — echoes of Mahmoud Mamdani’s work on settler-native dynamics.
• DEFINE: Clarifies the Egyptian nationalist frame where Sudan was claimed as Egyptian territory rather than as an Egyptian colony.