Sudanese military success forced Egyptian satirists to redraw the Sudanese as respected warriors.

Evidence

In his drawings of the Sudanese Mahdï, published several years later, the miraculously successful rebellion in the Sudan against British and Egyptian forces forced Sanü`a to rethink his representations of the Sudanese, at least those still living and fighting in the Sudan. … This time, the Sudan is personified as an obese man with a dagger hanging from his robe, about to gobble up tiny British soldiers. The Sudan figure here is exaggerated and oversized, but not infantilized. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 332

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds directly into the reader’s comparative Egyptian vs Sudan colonial framework — anticolonial success reshaping the colonizer’s image of the colonized.
• SEED: Essay angle: how the Mahdist victory (a subaltern military triumph within a colonized space) forced a representational shift in Egyptian nationalist satire.