Egyptian officers advanced Sudan’s colonial administration yet were excluded from elite societies
Evidence
Ibrahïm Fawzï was a twenty-six-year-old army officer serving his country as governor of the Equatorial Provinces in the southern Sudan. He had been appointed by the famous English general Charles Gordon, who had himself been hired by Isma`ïl to bring order and civilization to the territories along the White Nile and to put an end to the slave trade there. Ibrahïm Fawzï took these goals personally. He dedicated almost his entire military career to reinforcing the khedivial administration in the Sudan and, more important, the Egyptian character of that control. Despite his intimacy with the Sudan at a crucial point in both Egyptian and Sudanese history, he was not a member, nor was he even invited to become a member, of the Geographic Society (situated, incidentally, only a block away from the offices of the War Ministry, where Ibrahïm Fawzï’s orders originated). — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 505
Categorization
- QUESTION: The exclusion of a prominent Egyptian Sudan-governor from the Geographic Society hints at racial or class barriers within that institution — what exactly defined membership?
- XREF: connects to: British colonial officers directly controlled Egyptian officers’ careers in Sudan — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 515; Egyptian officers earned rank through conquest of Sudan; Sudanese memory of the Turkïya obscures Arabic-speaking Egyptians’ real role in that colonial administration — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 56 (+13 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: British colonial officers directly controlled Egyptian officers’ careers in Sudan — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 515; Egyptian officers earned rank through conquest of Sudan; Sudanese memory of the Turkïya obscures Arabic-speaking Egyptians’ real role in that colonial administration — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 56 (+13 more)
Broader Connections
- Colonial unity with Sudan never felt like home even to its Egyptian advocates
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