The instruments of nationalism that Benedict Anderson stresses as cultural unifiers during colonialism— newspapers, plays, and cartoons—trickled into the Sudan from Egypt and found an appreciative audience among the new intelligentsia there. Para- doxically, these students, cadets, and clerks refused to accept the idea of the "Sudan for the Sudanese," considering it a slogan engineered by the British. For them, nationalism meant an alliance with Egypt.

Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Coloni…, loc. 1023