The momentum of linguistic rights during this period was fed in part by the frenzy of decolonisation, the American civil-rights movement, and the end of several dictatorships.
Above all, she nails the propaganda lie that the transfer of power in India was an example of peaceful decolonisation that the rest of the world could follow.
At their Belgrade conference in 1961 he stood out boldly against cant, and lifted their eyes from obsessive concern with decolonisation towards their duty to world peace.
But 16 territories around the globe, mostly minute islands in the Caribbean, Atlantic or Pacific Oceans, remain officially in the queue for decolonisation.
When the P5, as they are called, first grabbed the most powerful slots, the UN had 51 members; decades of decolonisation and splintering self-determination later, it has 192.
It raises the issue at times in the General Assembly, and year after year persuades the UN's decolonisation committee to call for the two claimants to talk on sovereignty.This committee is not taken over-seriously by anyone but itself; any UN country can take part in it, and its present officers come from such havens of human rights as Mexico, Turkey, South Korea and Slovakia.
He has an ingenious suggestion for the Trusteeship Council, that most anachronistic of UN bodies, set up to handle decolonisation.
It is something one discovers in another's gaze.David Macey's life of Fanon provides, as background, an excellent guide to the history of French decolonisation and the intellectual debates of post-war France.
But did that signal an end to this unfinished bit of decolonisation?
And, although decolonisation after the second world war led to calls for a kind of Asian commonwealth, post-war fraternity soon crumbled, as cold-war fault-lines hardened.
The Arab Maghreb Union has gathered cobwebs since its creation in 1988, partly as a result of the spat over what Algeria's president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, calls Western Sahara's "decolonisation".
