Egyptian-oriented Sudanese press treated African cultural elements as obstacles to Arab glory.

Evidence

As Heather Sharkey points out, this journal offered a platform on which northern Sudanese contributors could argue that “pagan, superstitious, or otherwise ‘un-Islamic’ customs were thwarting hopes for new Arab glory in Sudan.” Thus, cultural links with Egypt apparently were prized as a way of reinforcing those elements of Sudanese culture that were not “African.” — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 840

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds the reader’s comparative frame: Egyptian colonialism exported an Arab-Islamic civilizational hierarchy into Sudan.