"wave of decolonization" is a grammatically correct phrase and is commonly used in written English.
It refers to the period of time during which former colonies gained independence from their colonizers. It can be used in various contexts, such as historical or political discussions. Example: The 1950s and 1960s saw a sweeping wave of decolonization as numerous African and Asian countries gained independence from their European rulers.
The Non-Aligned Movement emerged in the context of the wave of decolonization that followed World War II.
Still, paying for France to reclaim its colony just as the world was about to experience a wave of decolonization was a dubious undertaking.
Islāmic and South Asian nationalism, first awakened in the era of the first World War, triumphed in the wake of the second, bringing on in the years 1946 50 the first great wave of decolonization.
Arguing that the significance of this wave of decolonization to U.S. activists has been vastly underestimated, Young describes how literature, films, ideologies, and political movements that originated in the Third World were absorbed by U.S. activists of color.
The great wave of decolonization that swept through Asia and Africa following WW2 had struck, at the tip of Africa, a formidable anomaly, if not an immovable object: a regional superpower with a modern industrial economy, a ferocious race-based police state, and a large, well-armed and deeply rooted white minority.
Looking at the tumultuous decades surrounding World War II, Jackson restores the "indignant" quality to a generation of African American writers shaped by Jim Crow segregation, the Great Depression, the growth of American communism, and an international wave of decolonization.
The first wave of new sovereign states came with the decolonization movement of the 1960s and 1970s; the second in the early 1990s with the break-up of the Soviet Union.
There is a process of decolonization.
The period 1957 62 was also the climax of decolonization.
"It was the era of decolonization, the spirit of the times," he began.
A strong advocate of decolonization, Mr. Hammarskjold certainly had adversaries who felt threatened by his diplomacy.
