anticolonial

American  

[an-tee-kuh-loh-nee-uhl, an-tahy-] / ˌæn ti kəˈloʊ ni əl, ˌæn taɪ- /

adjective

1. opposing colonialism.

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noun

1. a person or country that actively opposes colonialism.

Etymology

Origin of anticolonial

anti- + colonial

Example Sentences

Uche Okeke memorializes the Aba Women’s War of 1929, one of the first major anticolonial uprisings in Nigeria, with a throng of seething figures, their strength and determination reflected in vigorous brushstrokes.

From The Wall Street Journal

Progress, as he understood it, meant refusing to be cowed by fear—a resolve he said he first witnessed among Jamaican anticolonial activists, and later on the front lines of the civil-rights movement.

From The Wall Street Journal

For decades, Greenland quietly incubated one of the last of the anticolonial movements chipping away at an old European empire.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From BBC

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.”

From The Wall Street Journal