Sudanese youth explored the southern White Nile like Europeans explored America.

Evidence

In those times, the provinces situated south of the White Nile held for the young men of Khartoum the same kind of attraction that enticed certain British youth and pushed them at different times to explore the unknown regions of America and savage Australia. The expeditions that the Sudanese launched to penetrate these areas were trading expeditions. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 562

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the Huntington/Hall theme of non-Western peoples being framed through European categories of expansion and exploration.