preindependence
- a word derived from independence.
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Pompidou's visit to francophone Africa is the first by a French President since Charles de Gaulle's historic preindependence tour in 1959.
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The mineral-rich southeastern province of Katanga in preindependence days supplied 60% of the revenue of the Congo government and most of the wealth the Belgians drew from the colony.
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The partnership continued even after Mugabe, whose Shona tribal constituency makes up almost 80% of the country's population, won the preindependence elections in 1980.
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First on the list was the Congo's preindependence debt of $920 million.
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Joining forces with Surinam's 63,000 Javanese, the Creoles took control of the preindependence assembly in 1973 elections.
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