anti-colonial movement
Resistance against empire
An anti-colonial movement is an organized effort by colonized peoples to resist, challenge, or end foreign domination of their territory.
Such movements range from armed resistance to nonviolent protest to political organizing for independence.
The term usually refers to 20th-century struggles against European empires in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean: India's anti-colonial movement gained momentum under Gandhi.
- Mau Mau UprisingKenyan anticolonial insurgency, 1950s
- Pan-AfricanismContinental and diaspora solidarity ideology
- Haitian RevolutionSuccessful slave rebellion, 1790s
- armed struggleViolent political conflict
- Marxism-LeninismState-led revolutionary socialism
Mahatma Gandhi · Négritude · breaking chains · Postcolonialism · land back · national liberation · Nelson Mandela · Ho Chi Minh · freedom fighters · Black Panther Party · American Revolution · Malcolm X · Bandung Conference · Suez Crisis
- movementsmove, step, turn, shift, slide
- ZambiaLusaka, Zambezi, Victoria Falls, Livingstone, Zambians
- AngolaLuanda
- Nyasalandprotectorate, British rule
anti-colonial movementcolonialism
Domination through foreign settlement
colonial rule · imperialism · colonial administration · settler colonialism · imperial expansion
anti-colonial movementcolonial power
Nation governing foreign territories
imperial power · imperial army · empire · subjugation · colonial settlers
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