Sudanese nationalism, as it develops after the…

1924 CE to 1935 CE

Sudanese nationalism, as it develops after the First World War, is an Arab and Muslim phenomenon with its support base in the northern provinces.

Nationalists oppose indirect rule and advocates a centralized national government in Khartoum responsible for both regions.

Nationalists also perceive Britain's southern policy as artificially dividing Sudan and preventing its unification under an arabized and Islamic ruling class.

Ironically, however, a non-Arab leads Sudan's first modern nationalist movement.

In 1921, Ali Abd al Latif, a Muslim Dinka and former army officer, had founded the United Tribes Society that called for an independent Sudan in which power would be shared by tribal and religious leaders.

Three years later, Ali Abd al Latif's movement, reconstituted as the White Flag League, organizes demonstrations in Khartoum that take advantage of the unrest that followed Stack's assassination.

Ali Abd al Latif's arrest and subsequent exile in Egypt sparks a mutiny by a Sudanese army battalion, the suppression of which succeeds in temporarily crippling the nationalist movement.

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Khartoum > Al-Khartum Al-Khartum Sudan View →

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Ali Abd al-Latif View →

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Dinka people View → Nuer people View → Arab people View → Islam View → Fur people (Nilo-Saharan tribe) View → Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) View → Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian View → Egypt, Kingdom of (British Protectorate) View → Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) View →

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