anticolonialism

[an-tee-kuh-loh-nee-uh-liz-uhm, an-tahy-]

noun

1. opposition to colonialism.

Other Word Forms

• anticolonialist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of anticolonialism¹

anticolonial + -ism

Example Sentences

Others on board included modernist Russian poet and a Trotskyite anarchist Victor Serge, Martinican poet and a founder of the anticolonialism Négritude movement Aimé Césaire, Cuban painter Wifredo Lam; influential Marxist psychiatrist and Pan-Africanist Frantz Fanon, along with fascinating others.

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The right-wing groups are especially aroused by and hostile to any student movement that includes language about anticolonialism, liberation and racial justice.

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The late, Palestinian Christian-born scholar of anticolonialism wrote several influential volumes on conflicts around the world, including a memoir, “Out of Place.”

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However, another driving force is anticolonialism.

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Such groups often employ the language of anticolonialism to advance their cause, treating homosexuality as a "western" import to Africa.

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