Sentence examples for colonial inheritance from inspiring English sources
He did not shirk writing of what "I have chosen to call my Middle Passage, my colonial inheritance.
It is a liberal legacy far more worthy of preservation than the colonial inheritance handed down from Yaoundé to Lomé and Cotonou.
Even though they regularly berate their colonial inheritance, Africa's leaders have shrewdly worked their people's ethnic, racial and linguistic divisions in their own favour.
The state draws on its colonial inheritance, in which the adopted code was based on the Napoleonic Code of France and further influenced by Spanish laws, both of which had a common source in Roman law.
A better understanding of India's colonial inheritance – particularly its nationalism and class structure – might have led many Americans to appreciate the sensitivities involved, even if it didn't change their views on the merits of the case.
The "shamba" system, a colonial inheritance, allowed poor families like mine to cultivate food crops in forest areas, in return for which they had to plant and care for trees.
There's the inheritance of colonial violence.
But if this English blogger can be allowed one further indulgence, a big difference lies in the inheritance from the colonial power.
Of course, the cocktail of causes and motivations for the attacks are complex: from an inheritance of savage colonial brutality in Algeria via poverty, racism, criminality and takfiri jihadist ideology.
There are tight restrictions on speech and broad definitions in law: Ms. Nundy attributed India's colonial past to the country's inheritance of what she describes as "oppressive laws".
