The condominium facade masked real British control over Sudan

Evidence

Not long after General Herbert Kitchener liberated hundreds of prisoners of the Mahdï, including Fawzï Pasha, the Sudan was named the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium, a unique designation under which a British administrator would govern the Sudan and the Egyptian treasury would finance the territory. The British and Egyptian flags flew side-by-side over administrative buildings in Khartoum, but it was clear to most that the so-called condominium paid only sanctimonious attention to Egyptian claims to the Sudan. Many nationalists were left wondering what the next step should be, and how to free Egypt and the Sudan together from the grips of Great Britain’s powerful empire. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 642

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies how a formally shared colonial designation hid British dominance—useful for defining ‘condominium’ as a form of coloniality.