anti-colonial
Opposing foreign rule
Anti-colonial describes opposition to colonialism—the control of one nation or people by another.
The term applies to movements, writings, and policies that resist or seek to end colonial rule: anti-colonial struggles in Africa, anti-colonial literature.
It often appears in historical and political contexts discussing independence movements of the 20th century.
Freedom from external control
- liberationRelease from constraint
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- decolonizationEnding imperial control
nationalism · resistance · autonomy · freedom · self-rule · partition · mandate · protectorate
Domain under unified control
- colonizerOne who occupies foreign land
- metropoleImperial colonial hub
- occupationOne's regular paid work
- exploitationSelfish use of others
extraction · plantation · forced labor · scramble · partition · treaty · annexation · subjugation
Defiance of established power
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- revolutionViolent governmental overthrow
- guerrillaIrregular armed fighter
- insurgencyArmed uprising against authority
boycott · civil disobedience · strike · protest · mobilization · Viet Minh · Sandinista · intifada
Expressed verbally, past tense
- GandhiIndian independence leader
- negritudeBlack cultural consciousness
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
- critiqueDetailed evaluative analysis
Chinua Achebe · discourse · epistemology · decolonizing · othering · representation · hybridity
independence
Freedom from external control
- liberationRelease from constraint
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
decolonization · nationalism · resistance · autonomy · freedom · self-rule · partition · mandate · protectorate · non-alignment
empire
Domain under unified control
- colonizerOne who occupies foreign land
- metropoleImperial colonial hub
- occupationOne's regular paid work
exploitation · extraction · plantation · forced labor · scramble · partition · treaty · annexation · subjugation · resistance
rebellion
Defiance of established power
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- revolutionViolent governmental overthrow
- guerrillaIrregular armed fighter
insurgency · boycott · civil disobedience · strike · protest · mobilization · Viet Minh · Sandinista · intifada · satyagraha
Said
Expressed verbally, past tense
- GandhiIndian independence leader
- negritudeBlack cultural consciousness
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
Chinua Achebe · critique · discourse · epistemology · decolonizing · othering · representation · hybridity
- colonialismcolonizer, colonies, British Empire, colonizers, protectorate
- African IndependenceNelson Mandela, independence movement, national liberation, freedom fighters, armed struggle
- Maghreb HistoryMorocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Algiers, Marrakech
- Italian ColoniesEritrea, Libya, Somalia, Abyssinia, Rhodes
- Unity Movementsunification, pan-Africanism, German reunification, German unification, European integration
anti-colonialcolonial
Of occupied territories
colonialist · imperialist · expansionist · imperialistic · annexationist
anti-colonialimperialism
Extending dominion over others
colonialism · empire-building · settler colonialism · neocolonialism · white supremacist
colony, colonial, colonist, colonize, colonization, colonialism