variants
or less commonly anticolonial
: opposed to colonial rule of one country by another : opposing or resisting colonialism
anti-colonial movements
anti-colonialism
adjective
or less commonly anticolonialism
supporters of anti-colonialism
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As the exhibition illustrated, Pan-Africanism also corresponded with urgent anti-colonial, anti-apartheid, and civil rights movements worldwide.
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Delinda Collier, Artforum, 1 May 2025
Attitudes among the Spanish toward their sole sub-Saharan possession did much to empower the violently anti-colonial protests which would come in the 1960s, as Enrique Okenve Martínez explains in a 2016 issue of Afro-Hispanic Review.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 18 Apr. 2025
Britain and France, though ravaged by that war, clung to their empires until anti-colonial revolts and U.S. pressure pried them loose.
—Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2025
Across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, anti-colonial movements repeatedly drew strength from Exodus imagery in their resistance to European imperialism.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 12 Apr. 2025
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Delinda Collier, Artforum, 1 May 2025
Attitudes among the Spanish toward their sole sub-Saharan possession did much to empower the violently anti-colonial protests which would come in the 1960s, as Enrique Okenve Martínez explains in a 2016 issue of Afro-Hispanic Review.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 18 Apr. 2025
Britain and France, though ravaged by that war, clung to their empires until anti-colonial revolts and U.S. pressure pried them loose.
—Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2025
Across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, anti-colonial movements repeatedly drew strength from Exodus imagery in their resistance to European imperialism.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 12 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for anti-colonial
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“Anti-colonial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-colonial. Accessed 12 May. 2025.
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