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decolonisation

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the action of changing from colonial to independent status

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(I support Mugabe) Because we have completed the process of decolonisation while Zimbabwe has not. Benjamin Mkapa

The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it. Kofi Annan

Manley, elected chief minister beginning in January 1955, accelerated the process of decolonisation during his able stewardship. Source: Internet

Government is sparing no effort to complete the decolonisation process of Mauritius so that Mauritius can effectively and fully exercise its sovereignty over the entirety of its territory, including the Chagos Archipelago’. Source: Internet

From that time until independence in 1960, the deputies of the Four Communes were always African, and were at the forefront of the decolonisation struggle. Source: Internet

In 1976, Pakistan asserted its ownership of the diamond, saying its return would be, "a convincing demonstration of the spirit that moved Britain voluntarily to shed its imperial encumbrances and lead the process of decolonisation". Source: Internet

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