In the 1950s, the world fought a civil rights struggle against colonialism, in the 1960s against color discrimination, in the 1970s and 1980s against apartheid.
And, for an island "deadset against colonialism," Puerto Rico's neo-colonial politicians have perpetuated the island's dependence to US financial markets.
Though he argued fiercely against the bonds of colonialism, he warned against the excesses of nationalism: "the idea of the nation is one of the most powerful anesthetics that man has invented".
The main reason, rather, was that the world became consumed with the first world war, the Russian revolution, the fight against fascism and the struggles against colonialism.
The longest, most divided, and bloodiest wars against colonialism in the subcontinent occurred in the Portuguese colonies.
Seen through this prism, a strike against gay and lesbian people is a strike against colonialism and in favour of African nationalism and self-worth.
Puerto Rico, he wrote, was "deadset against colonialism", even though the US had invaded the former Spanish colony in 1898 and only bestowed American citizenship to Puerto Ricans in 1917.
"It was an act against colonialism".
"The Convert" is set in 1895 amid uprisings against colonialism in southern Africa.
In "King Lear" he found a crystal-clear reflection of the African struggle against colonialism.
