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Of or pertaining to a colony. | Of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony. | Of or pertaining to the ideals of colonialism.
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Rather than building the historic colonial cottages from scratch, Fond Doux preserves St. Lucia’s architectural heritage by saving abandoned colonial buildings from around the island and restoring them.
Some put this down as a factor of the colonial mentality still ravaging African leaders centuries after the slave trade and decades after these countries had obtained what is derisively referred to as “flag independence” from their colonial masters.
Every Naga should know that anything that comes from or offered by the generous aggressors is colonial and neo-colonial policy tainted.
At the end of the colonial regime, they became part of the Republic of the Philippines, during within which we saw the continuation of many things that were initiated by the two colonial events.
Britain was about to enter a long phase of decolonisation, and its demographic make-up, through waves of colonial then ex-colonial migration, was on course to permanently change.
His best-selling book which explores how racist colonial writers buried information about sophisticated Indigenous land management and farming and fishing technologies, has radically reshaped our understanding of pre-colonial Aboriginal societies.
This poverty amidst plenty is rooted in the DRC’s colonial history, the neo-colonial plundering post-independence, dictatorships and war.
Relying on Patrick Wolfe, who “adapted and applied” the settler-colonial paradigm to Palestine, Pappe explains that the colonial project is on-going, as is Palestine’s resistance to it.
The colonial experience and its attendant colonial trauma are central in the depiction of African nationalism and liberation movements in African literature.
Many colonial officials believed that the WHO—with its ties to the United Nations—represented a significant threat to the survival of colonial empires in Africa.
My country had been under colonial rule and our fathers mounted a struggle for freedom from the colonial masters.
This is why colonial Ghana, then called the Gold Coast, received a completely different colonial-era criminal code from British administrators from the other colonies.
True to the fact that J. Luckoo, the only Indian, was elected to a seat of the Court of Policy through an Afro-colonial vote to the shock of the colonial secretary Cecil Clement.
Within this British educational system, ideas of white superiority and black inferiority, subservience to colonial authority and demonisation of non-European cultures formed part of the structures that upheld the British colonial empire.
Yet, despite being the most pervasive colonial power and with perhaps the most colonial crimes against humanity under its belt, Britain is still able to project an aura of respectability, honour and nobility.
Around the city there are good examples of the English influence in large colonial town houses and colonial public/government buildings.
By mid 19th-century, colonial orientalist texts further distinguished Hindus from Buddhists, Sikhs and Jains, but the colonial laws continued to consider all of them to be within the scope of the term Hindu until about mid 20th-century.
Colonial architecture The city of La Paz has a consistently decreasing volume of colonial buildings, mostly centered around the vicinity of the Plaza Murillo.
Colonial settlement of Trinidad Trinidad is reported to have been densely populated at the beginning of the colonial period.
Documents from the Spanish period are the only historical sources about colonial and pre-colonial times in the island.