European administrators branded Egyptian governors in Sudan as despotic slave dealers.

Evidence

But for some European explorers of the Sudan, especially rivals in the administration, Ibrahïm Fawzï embodied political evil, a particularly Egyptian type of despotism that had wrought havoc on the Sudanese. Branded a corrupt scoundrel by Giegler Pasha, another European that Ismaïl appointed to a Sudanese administrative service, Ibrahïm Fawzï was known to the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society as a violent slave dealer who had abused his position as governor of Equatoria to plunder the very tribes Gordon had employed him to protect. His successor to that governorship, the German Emin Pasha, wasted little time in decrying Ibrahïm Fawzï's inclusion in the Sudan Ministry in Cairo, under the Uräbï government. “Under these conditions,” Emin Pasha railed,“how is the government to be carried on? What about the slave question?” — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 542

Categorization

• XREF: Core to the reader’s Egypt-vs-Sudan comparison: Europeans positioned themselves as protectors of Sudanese against ‘Egyptian despotism,’ a standard colonial justification of the era — resonates with the anti-slavery framing in Things Fall Apart-era colonial rhetoric.