Sha`rawï’s pro-Sudanese activism denied Egypt’s own colonial history there

Evidence

From the personal aspect of her past to the broader questions of politics, Sharawï defended the Sudanese from abandonment by Egyptians while denying in her pleas that the circumstances that tethered the Sudan to Egypt might have had any relation to the historic colonial relationship. Perhaps her attempt to address the symbolic relationship between Egypt and the Sudan gave Sharawï a chance to create a more independent role for herself than she had experienced as a child in her father’s house. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 860

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why did Egyptian nationalists defend Sudanese ‘unity’ while denying Egypt’s own historic colonial role in Sudan? This tension is worth chasing in the comparative Egypt-Sudan analysis.
• XREF: Parallels the phenomenon in which anti-colonial nationalists in Africa reproduced colonial assumptions toward neighboring peoples, relevant to the reader’s broader African coloniality framework.