Egyptian writing appropriated the explorer’s pose to claim ownership of the Sudan

Evidence

Pasha appropriated the role of explorer and conqueror, usually narrated by Europeans in the last decades of the nineteenth century, and carried back to Cairo his own specimens, artifacts, and anecdotes of the Sudan. His claim to intimate knowledge of the place was a claim to ownership, a protest against the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium, with its British domination of the Sudan. His book placed the Sudan, and the Sudanese, at the feet of Egyptian society. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 574

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes how colonized intellectuals reversed the imperial gaze and knowledge claims; comparable to analysis elsewhere of Ottoman/Egyptian counter-narratives against British expansion.
• DEFINE: Shows how a colonized Egyptian reproduced the very explorer/conqueror rhetoric used against him — a shade of coloniality where the Egyptian sat between British and Sudanese hierarchy.