0 to make a country that was previously a colony (= a country controlled by another country) politically independent; to get rid of colonies:
France is decolonising the Ivory Coast, where some 450 French scientists, technicians, and their families are working.
He said that had it not been for Western colonialism and the unwillingness of the Great Powers to decolonize wisely, the oppressed of Asia would never have turned to communism.
Many decolonizing territories in Africa, the Americas, and Southeast Asia had two or more ethnoterritorial groups competing for control.
Decolonizing the curriculum asks us to look at our shared assumptions about how the world is, particularly assumptions regarding racial and civilizational hierarchy.
Not a square foot of territory was decolonised in Churchill's second term (1951-55) - India had already gone in 1947.
By the time the world prevailed upon Spain to decolonise, Equatorial Guinea had the best medical services, the lowest death rate and the second highest per capita income of any sub-Saharan African country.
How can art decolonize its Western-centric norms and practices?
