The word "colonialism" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to describe the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically. For example, "The British Empire was one of the largest colonial empires in history, extending its influence to many different countries."
The violent seizure of white-owned farms in the 2000s, they argue, was a historic reclaiming of land from the legacy of colonialism, an act that South Africa and other post-independence governments have not dared carry out.
Avoid debate of key British foreign policy issues that might be exploited by terrorists: farewell to defending international law enshrining the right to resist colonialism and foreign military occupation.
The end of European colonialism in the Muslim world in no way diminished the immediacy of that challenge nor the venality, brutality and incompetence of local regimes.
The last is commonly regarded to have been at Coniston, Northern Territory, in 1928 – notwithstanding the countless other acts of extreme violence (including custodial deaths) inextricably linked to colonialism, that have since been perpetrated against Indigenous Australians.
But you have to remember, too, that French colonialism was not just the same experience all over the world.
Fanon was a psychiatrist from Martinique who detested French colonialism and worked for the Algerian side until his death in 1961.
Since 1994, we have worked tirelessly to rebuild our country and to reverse the legacy of apartheid colonialism.
The most acute problem for the recent generations of Muslim immigrants to France is that the proclaimed universalism of republican values, and in particular laïcité, can very quickly resemble the "civilising mission" of colonialism.
Most Australians don't know – or don't want to know – about the extent of the violence that accompanied European colonial settlement and that is still synonymous for black Australia with Australia Day. Thirty years after Arthur Phillip sailed into Sydney Cove on 26 January 1788, it was left to Macquarie to celebrate this special anniversary for British colonialism.
The secrecy of the British honours system, with its tradition of idiocy and colonialism, snobbery and taint, now requires much of each batch of knighthoods, commanders, and so forth, to be received with Sir Jimmy Savile, Rolf Harris (OBE, MBE, CBE) or Fred Goodwin-induced caution.
It wasn't cool to be African in those days and in my ignorant teenage way, I was acting out a much bigger crisis of confidence, one that had been swallowing Africans and spitting them out as permanent economic migrants in Europe and America ever since the end of colonialism.
