Egyptian satire of Sudanese speech mirrored the pattern of khedival domination

Evidence

The lessons are dictated by educated, middleto upper-class Egyptians. This tutorial reinforces the intimate ties between Egyptian and Sudanese cultures while also repeating the pattern and goals of domination established by both the khedive’s foreign policy and the traditional employment of the Sudanese as servants in Egyptian homes. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 362