Sudanese anti-colonial resistance conflicted with Egyptian stereotypes of Sudanese

Evidence

At the same time that these two performers were making Cairene audiences laugh, another revolution was emerging in the Sudan, led by a group known as the White Flag League, who protested the British government of the Sudan (known as the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium). This chapter explores the goals and experiences of the young Alï abd al-Latïf, a Muslim descendant of Dinka tribespeople and leader of the White Flag League, and how his political goals and eventual imprisonment affected other Sudanese leaders while conflicting with popular images of the Sudanese then current in Egypt. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 121