The 1924 revolution’s songs closely resembled Cairo’s 1919 ones

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. … 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