Egyptian Sudanese colony was administered increasingly by Arabic-speaking native Egyptians
Evidence
The chapter concludes with the ways in which Sudanese figures debated the issue of unity with Egypt under the watchful eyes of British administrators in the Sudan, and a discussion of how the dualism of the colonized colonizer was viewed by people in the Sudan, nominally colonized by both Great Britain and Egypt. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 121 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Ordinary Egyptians, not Gordon, actually administered the Sudan on the ground; The Sudan’s Turkish administration included native-born Egyptians increasingly over time.; The Sudan saw even Arabic-speaking Egyptians as foreign Turks. (+4 more)
Related
- Egyptian administration of Sudan introduced Western colonial tensions to interior Africa (similarity 0.90)
- The Sudan saw even Arabic-speaking Egyptians as foreign Turks. (similarity 0.89)
- Egypt was simultaneously a British colony and a colonizer of Sudan. (similarity 0.88)
- Ordinary Egyptians, not Gordon, actually administered the Sudan on the ground (similarity 0.87)
- Sudanese memory of the Turkïya obscures Arabic-speaking Egyptians’ real role in that colonial administration (similarity 0.87)
- Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan (similarity 0.86)
- Sudanese themselves debated unity with Egypt under British oversight. (similarity 0.86)
- Egypt was simultaneously colonized by Britain and eager to recolonize the Sudan. (similarity 0.86)
- British colonial strategy drove a wedge between Sudanese and Egyptians (similarity 0.86)
- Britain framed Sudan as racially distinct from Egypt and groomed separate Sudanese nationalism. (similarity 0.86)
- Slavery and control of Sudan were inextricably linked in Egyptian and British views. (similarity 0.85)
- Sudanese elites debated unity with Egypt under British surveillance (similarity 0.85)
- Egyptian officers simultaneously suffered British supervision and pursued Egypt’s own civilizing mission in Sudan. (similarity 0.85)
- Egyptian nationalists could simultaneously enforce and suffer colonialism. (similarity 0.85)
- Arabic-speaking Egyptians were considered Turks in the Sudan context (similarity 0.85)
Broader Connections
- Egyptian administration of Sudan introduced Western colonial tensions to interior Africa
#expands(0.70) - Egypt was simultaneously a British colony and a colonizer of Sudan.
#corroborates(0.50) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 121 - Egyptian nationalism reproduced colonial racial hierarchy toward the Sudan internally
#complicates(0.40)