"during colonialism" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a specific period of time when a country was colonized by another. For example, "A number of social reforms took place during colonialism in the Caribbean."
During colonialism, colonial powers not only extracted natural resources but also cultural booty.
They were kept from full participation during colonialism except for the Japanese.
Marxist historians tend to refer to this idea as "primitive accumulation": the massive land-grabs during colonialism are interpreted in a similar way.
A poorly defined local middle class composed of teachers, professionals, and civil servants and including a disproportionate number of Chinese and Portuguese emerged during colonialism.
Mr. Mugabe has urged voters to remember him as their liberator and has promised to return land stolen by the British settlers during colonialism.
Dressed almost invariably in black, he walked through Kinshasa with a police dog on a leash, hardly appropriate in a country whose citizens had killed all the dogs left by the Belgians as symbols of their repression during colonialism.
Whiteness, like all racial identities, is a relatively recent historical concept, conceived during European colonialism and American slavery as a way to empower poor whites with "whiteness" and divide them politically and economically from other disenfranchised people.
Pick up a real-life espionage story, a biography on an athlete he admires, or even a well-researched work of historical fiction that combines history and biography, such as I, Claudius (about a particularly murderous period of the Roman Empire) or something from the Flashman series (about a lovable scoundrel during British colonialism).
Hollande's incursion into Mali comes on the back of his refusal to apologise for French colonialism during a recent visit to Algeria, echoing his predecessor.
De Tham, also called Hoang Hoa Tham (born c. 1860, Yen The, northern Vietnam died Jan . 10 , 1913near Yen The), Vietnamese resistance fighter and enemy of French colonialism during the first two decades of French rule in Indochina.
"Our constant search and struggle for development resources is linked directly to the historical inability of our nations to accumulate wealth from the efforts of our peoples during slavery and colonialism," said Baldwin Spencer, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, in July this year.
