The Sudan is Egypt’s by right of conquest. She is a part of Egypt, and her not being separated is vital to Egypt’s life, due to her holding the source of the Nile and being her neighbor. We loathed giving her up, then she was reconquered, this time with the participation of the Eng- lish. During all of that we were submissive to the contract of the Condo- minium and the triumphant power [England]. That administration is void before public opinion and the law. The arrangement of the Condo- minium alters nothing of the correct concept that all Egyptians hold dear, and that is that colonizing [isti`mär] the Sudan is the right of Egyptians, and no one else, just as the subsidizing of the Sudan is the duty of Egyptians, and no one else. Egyptians look at the Sudanese as brothers, as a part of their community, so it’s their responsibility to look out for their brothers’ welfare.

Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Coloni…, loc. 766