The 1924 revolt split Sudanese opinion on who should represent them

Evidence

But if the revolt forced certain politicized members of Sudanese society to rethink their ties to Egypt, it also directed their attention to the question of who in the Sudan best spoke for the Sudanese. The events and slogans of the revolution itself reveal that, for many Sudanese activists, the idea of Nile Valley unity was both attractive and complicated. The songs and poems recited at the demonstrations offer glimpses into how this ambivalence expressed itself. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1038