anticolonial

[an-tee-kuh-loh-nee-uhl, an-tahy-]

adjective

1. opposing colonialism.

noun

1. a person or country that actively opposes colonialism.

Word History and Origins

Origin of anticolonial¹

anti- + colonial

Example Sentences

Perhaps most striking of all was how many female volunteers brought along their young daughters, inducting new generations of women into anticolonial politics.

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To the reader not expertly versed in global affairs, the many names and acronyms in the book are likely to overwhelm rather than pique curiosity about anticolonial resistance in Nyasaland, or separatist nationalism in Puerto Rico, or the intra-Chinese rivalries of the 1930s that made Shanghai “the very public assassination capital of the world.”

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In Connecticut, members hailed the launch of “an unprecedented anticolonial struggle.”

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Startling, not because of the writing—which is often repetitive, tediously autobiographical and awash with anticolonial pieties—but because “Slow Poison” is an apologia for Uganda’s Idi Amin, a bloodthirsty tyrant like few others in modern history.

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Amin’s impoverishment of his nation was noble because it was anticolonial; Mr. Museveni’s attempt to restructure the Ugandan economy was craven because he prostrated himself before Western capital.

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