Sudanese activists expressed Egyptian nationalist forms in their own dialect and culture

Evidence

These and other examples of popular expression during the 1924 demonstrations show how interlinked many Sudanese considered the cultures of Egypt and the Sudan to be.They sang songs and chanted slogans and poetry in a mixture of classical Arabic and Sudanese dialect. The examples also reveal how much the constructions of Egyptian nationalism had influenced the struggle for autonomy between Egypt, Great Britain, and the Sudan. It is easy to understand how the British could believe that Egyptians were behind the White Flag League and other activist groups, so much did the songs, slogans, and poems of the revolution sound like those heard in Cairo in 1919. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1043

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s comparative Egypt-vs-Sudan coloniality goal: shows shared cultural vocabulary despite divergent colonial structures. — connects to: Activists self-consciously copied Egyptian protest tactics for international audiences — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 484