Egyptian nationalists shared grievances because the condominium masked British dominance

Evidence

Nationalists reacted strongly to the condominium’s implication that Egypt and England were equal partners in governing the Sudan. Made second-rate citizens in their own capital and now also in the Sudan, Egyptians had lost the meaning of their flag, which now stood for nothing, wrote Shaykh `Alï Yusuf. He printed full translations of the proclamation and, in a very public close reading, analyzed the language of the condominium’s proclamation term by term. He offered a long description of the geographic boundaries of Egypt and the Sudan, then painstakingly mapped out the razor lines of the new borders decreed by the British, which pushed the Sudan all the way into Aswan, far enough, he worried, to erase the public’s memory of Egyptian rule in the south. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 756

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: The border-drawing anxiety over losing southern territory by erasure of public memory parallels themes in the reader’s broader African coloniality reading.

Related

• Egyptian nationalists read the Sudan condominium as public demotion (similarity 0.94)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as their own colony by right of conquest (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian anti-colonial nationalists simultaneously dreamed of dominating the Sudan (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian nationalists framed Sudan as family bound to Egyptian dictates, silencing Sudanese protest (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian nationalists rejected the condominium’s equal-partner premise (similarity 0.84)
• The condominium facade masked real British control over Sudan (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian nationalists studied British society to learn the secret of empire (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian nationalists denied Britain any legal claim to the Sudan. (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as part of Egypt while denying it was a colony (similarity 0.83)
• British anti-slavery scrutiny silenced Egyptian nationalist claims on reconquering Sudan (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian nationalists desired to recolonize Sudan even after losing it (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed the Sudan as rightful Egyptian territory needing reconquest. (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian nationalists redefined the Sudan as part of Egypt to mask colonial domination (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian nationalists saw Egypt as uniquely placed between civilized Europe and fanatical Africa. (similarity 0.82)