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post-colonial

adjective

  1. existing or occurring since a colony gained independence

    post-colonial Nigeria

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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By this point, Blouin had begun to develop considerable clout in post-colonial, pan-African circles.

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The blood-soaked history of Chile — not dissimilar from that of most post-colonial nations — receives a searing filmic indictment in this striking western.

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Although the mining operations only started years after independence, they were seen as emblematic of France's ongoing post-colonial influence.

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It was a time, after all, when jazz greats like Louis Armstrong and Melba Liston were dispatched as cultural ambassadors to Africa’s post-colonial regions, only to realize they were smokescreens for covert ops intended to undermine movements like Lumumba’s and protect multinational interests in the region’s valuable minerals like uranium.

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Too often, he found, they relied on "clichéd", post-colonial motifs.

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