The Sudan’s ethnic divisions outweighed its religious and linguistic ties to Egypt

Evidence

While the majority of the people of Egypt are comparatively homogeneous, the Sudan is divided between Arabs and Negroes, and within each of these two great racial groups there are a number of races and tribes differing widely from one another and often mutually antagonistic. The Arabs of the Sudan speak dialects of the same language as the people of Egypt and are united to them by the bond of religion. Islam, moreover, is spreading even among the non-Arab races of the Sudan. These influences mitigate in various degrees, but they do not overcome the antagonism of the two countries, which rankling memories of Egyptian misgovernment in the past have done much to intensify. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 831

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s comparative coloniality interest — how imperial borders cleaved along artificial ethnic lines across Africa.