Egyptian writer Salah Hamad praised European humane colonization despite acknowledging its genocides

Evidence

All the great civilizations were imperial, Salah Hamad wrote, although many, like Spain in America or Britain in Australia, had butchered and committed genocide; but England and the rest of Europe had developed a more sympathetic and humane colonization, exemplified in the abolitionists’ care for African blacks. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 760

Categorization

• XREF: This internalization of the ‘civilizing mission’ narrative by a colonized intellectual connects to the reader’s framework of coloniality interlocking with Egyptian nationalism.