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And when the colonial period ended, what you had in place of that was generally secular dictators, which say they're a country, but did not bring democracy to the country, and established their own dictatorship.
And notice, most of that went to the motherland, to the imperial metropoles, not to their colonial possessions.
The role of Afrobeats in emancipating and getting over the colonial mindset of the youth cannot be ignored.
When I came out of college, I started to try to do things contextually in Southern California, and you got into the logic of Spanish colonial tile roofs and things like that.
That one is like all these animals with their mouths hooked together, the colonial animals.
It happened again in colonial New England, in the American Wild West when the sheriffs moved to town, and in Mexico.
There were occasional presidents of little colonial councils and bits of government, but it was really a nothing title.
He's also a prodigious art collector, beginning as an intern in Budapest by collecting 16th- and 17th-century Dutch art and Hungarian painting, and when he came to this country moving on to Spanish colonial art, Russian icons and finally Mayan ceramics.
Beneath the magic is a story about the pattern of Colombian and Latin American history from colonial times onward.
It's called a pyrosome or colonial tunicate, if you like.
In these places, it's more a celebration of the native and mixed cultures that survived through the colonial period.
After Portugal and the Netherlands switched to metric voluntarily, other nations followed, with colonial empires spreading the system around the world.
The United States of America stuck with the English units of its colonial past and today remains one of only three countries which haven't fully embraced the metric system.
Due to its colonial association with native cultures, combined with the power of advertising, chocolate retains an aura of something sensual, decadent, and forbidden.
At the time, Great Britain was in the midst of expanding its colonial influence and becoming the new dominant world power.
Now, I only later came to understand that the poverty I'd seen in the Philippines was the result of decisions made or not made, man-made, by a succession of colonial powers and corrupt governments who had anything but the interests of Sonny Boy at heart.
Colonial trade was flourishing, and piracy was highly profitable.
But over the last century, gradually this delicate balance of these places has been interfered with; first, by the urban planners of the colonial period, when the French went enthusiastically about, transforming what they saw as the un-modern Syrian cities.
In Philadelphia, it's a voting-themed scavenger hunt all throughout colonial old town.
What I already knew, what was very obvious already, was that religion, politics, Europe's colonial baggage, also Western foreign policy failures of recent years, were all a part of the picture.
I went to class, sat down, took my Kenyan history notes, and there I was, down Kenyan coastal town, with the great Mekatilili wa Menza, the Giriama woman who led her people against British colonial rule.
Another challenge is the colonial mentality that what comes from the west is best.
This same mindset popularized the overprocessed, leftover rice debris known as "broken rice," which was imported to Senegal from Indochina and introduced by the colonial French.
We can't have the colonialist law, so we need to remove all these colonial statues.
It is not going to be easy for a people used to being told how to think, what to do, how to go about it, a people long subjected to the intellectual guidance and direction of others, be they the colonial masters, aid industry or international news media.
The country has known chronic violence since French colonial rule ended in 1960.
As I began traveling around Africa talking about the problems faced by chimpanzees and their vanishing forests, I realized more and more how so many of Africa's problems could be laid at the door of previous colonial exploitation.
It's a colonial animal.
And this is a great protection of a pedestrian zone, and the repurposing of some colonial cannons to do that.
In the novel, she interrogates the culture of her native India, including its social mores and colonial history.
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