colonial
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He told the BBC that as a former British colony, Kenya's relationship with France was different because it was not shaped by the same colonial history as West African countries.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
“The Complete Notebooks” traces Camus’s development from a budding writer in colonial Algeria to a journalist of the French Resistance to a revered public intellectual.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
What they did share was a brutal colonial past, and a longing to achieve economic self-determination.
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
ICJ judges have been asked to rule on the validity of the border established between the two countries in 1899 under British colonial rule.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
In practice, wrote colonial leader Roger Williams, "they will not conclude of ought. . . unto which the people are averse."
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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