Nineteenth-century Egypt was simultaneously colonized and an aspiring colonizer of Sudan

Evidence

Perhaps another reason colonialism in Egypt should be attributed to more than one source, as Mitchell presents it, is that, during much of the nineteenth century, Egypt was nominally the province or dependency of two empires, the Ottoman and the British. But Mitchell’s account neglects the fact that, for much of the nineteenth century, Egypt also attempted to establish its own empire, in the Sudan. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 83

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s stated goal of contrasting Egypt’s colonial experience with Sudan’s, and the ‘colonized who colonize’ theme recurs in broader African coloniality literature.