The word "colonial" is correct and usable in written English.
The word can be used to refer to the period of time in which a country or area is under the control of a more powerful foreign nation. For example: "India experienced a long period of colonial rule under the British government".
The Myall Creek Massacre, as it came to be known, was not the first of the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of such crimes that unfolded across the colonial frontier between the first inhabitants, soldiers, settlers, vigilante groups and Indigenous "black police".
They still talk also about the Wiradjuri warrior Wyndradyne, and his battles around Bathurst with the colonial soldiers and settlers, as if his death happened yesterday rather than 190 years ago.
Denis first came to international prominence in 1988 with the film Chocolat, the story of a little French girl growing up in a remote colonial outpost in central Africa.
The town in which Salim, "a man without a side", sets up shop, formerly Arab, then colonial, becomes a microcosm of a society moving towards independence: a place of chaotic and violent change; tribal warfare, ignorance, poverty and human degradation.
At the time, I knew little about French colonial history and assumed that these were race riots not much different to those we had known in the UK in 1981.
At the same time, I am writing a book called The French Intifada, which is a parallel attempt to make sense of French colonial history in north Africa.
While Australian colonial frontier exploration and settlement is predominantly characterised with extreme violence, this exhibition – Fragile First Impressions – tells of a more (but not exclusively) peaceful engagement between the Bininj and white people beginning in the mid-19th century.
He was rather too eager to shoot on sight than appease the tribesmen, killing seven and drawing mild admonishment from the colonial authorities.
The former homes of both Darío and Cortés are now museums; Fundación Ortiz Gurdian showcases a wide selection of Nicaraguan and Latin American art; the city also has several beautifully renovated colonial-era churches.
Sundown, some drinks, a colonial-era hotel with fans cooling a terrace, waves crashing on the nearby beach, a group of British diplomats, a minister – and a 34-year-old businessman called Adam Werritty.
The Hungarian is also charged with selling the merits of the EU, while coming from a party and a government increasingly prone to complain about the EU as a neo-colonial power.
