anticolonial
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of anticolonial
Example Sentences
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Progress, as he understood it, meant refusing to be cowed by fear—a resolve he said he first witnessed among Jamaican anticolonial activists, and later on the front lines of the civil-rights movement.
For decades, Greenland quietly incubated one of the last of the anticolonial movements chipping away at an old European empire.
Perhaps most striking of all was how many female volunteers brought along their young daughters, inducting new generations of women into anticolonial politics.
From BBC
To the reader not expertly versed in global affairs, the many names and acronyms in the book are likely to overwhelm rather than pique curiosity about anticolonial resistance in Nyasaland, or separatist nationalism in Puerto Rico, or the intra-Chinese rivalries of the 1930s that made Shanghai “the very public assassination capital of the world.”
In Connecticut, members hailed the launch of “an unprecedented anticolonial struggle.”
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