But two years after this speech, through what was, for Kämil, its shame- ful and shaming seizure of Omdurman in 1898, Great Britain opened the Pandora’s box that was Africa. In doing so, British military officials had revealed a degree of their own savagery and fanaticism when they revenged Gordon’s death by ripping apart the tomb of the Mahdï. Kämil mourned the desecration, but even more, he resented that it had been committed in the name of General Gordon. With this act of disrespect, the British had stamped their name onto the Sudan

Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Coloni…, loc. 746