Nationalist songs scripted Sudanese loyalty to Egypt without foreign intermediaries

Evidence

Here, we put them in your hands. We swear in faith to your religion there is no foreigner who can act as go-between for us. Our house is your house, we are like brothers and friends. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 872

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• SEED: The imagined Sudanese voice explicitly rejects Britons as mediators — nationalist propaganda building unity against the colonial power.

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