European explorers were monumentalized while Egyptian figures were stigmatized as slave traders

Evidence

These ideas gained widespread currency in England, particularly at a time when few traveled to Africa itself. For the newspaper-reading public in both Europe and Egypt, for visitors to the free lectures at geographic societies, or for strollers through the exotic panoramas of international world exhibitions, central and East African territories unofficially bore the imprint of Livingstone’s illustrious name and reputation. The name of Sir Samuel Baker clung to the upper regions of the Blue Nile, even while he ceremoniously affixed that of his monarch to Lake Albert Nyanza. But Egyptian or Muslim figures whose names were connected to sub-Saharan Africa were not similarly monumentalized as explorers and liberators of Africa, and were almost always implicated as agents in the slave trade. A national hero to many Egyptians, Fawzï could never shake off the stigma of his having traded in slaves when governor of Equatoria; this fact made him as reprehensible to British authorities as his participation in the `Uräbï rebellion and kept him from gaining the back pay he had accrued while a prisoner in the Sudan. And even Fawzï, with his Egypt-centric vision of the Sudan, could not separate the names of Gordon and Kitchener from his narrative of Sudanese and Egyptian history. Fawzï was not the only Egyptian to vacillate between claiming the Sudan as his own and honoring the exploration of men like Livingstone. In many ways, the discoveries of the Europeans, with their addition of detail to public knowledge of the sub-Saharan landscape, gave contemporary Egyptians their most comprehensive picture of the Sudan. And the context of rooting out slavery, in which these explorations were made, meant that by the last quarter of the nineteenth century Egyptians had to answer somehow the myriad accusations about slavery that informed international perceptions of their relationship with Africa. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 656

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: This passage deepens the reader’s comparative colonial framework: uneven memorialization of explorers underpins how Egyptian claims to Sudan were viewed in Britain.
• XREF: Fits the reader’s Egypt-vs-Sudan coloniality framework: Egypt both claiming Sudan and being implicated as its slave-trading colonizer.