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- verb Present participle of
decolonise .
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Examples
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In a statement the party said that youth now had to go in pursuit of the African century and complete decolonising the country and the continent.
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Zimbabwean officials said the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) committee had fulfilled its objective of decolonising Africa following South Africa's historic polls in April which closed the chapter on white minority rule on the continent.
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In this sense, the decolonising power, in the context of the 435 process, is South Africa.
STATEMENT AT THE 19TH AFRICAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE, LUSAKA, JANUARY 12, 1989(1) 1989
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If the decolonising power accepts that a system of one person one vote in a united, democratic and nonracial Namibia is acceptable, how does it justify the rejection of the same outlook with respect to its own country?
STATEMENT AT THE 19TH AFRICAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE, LUSAKA, JANUARY 12, 1989(1) 1989
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In this sense, the decolonising power, in the context of the 435 process, is South Africa.
STATEMENT AT THE 19TH AFRICAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE, LUSAKA, JANUARY 12, 1989(1) 1989
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If the decolonising power accepts that a system of one person one vote in a united, democratic and nonracial Namibia is acceptable, how does it justify the rejection of the same outlook with respect to its own country?
STATEMENT AT THE 19TH AFRICAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE, LUSAKA, JANUARY 12, 1989(1) 1989
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These include people opposing mega-projects or supporting alternatives (such as transition towns, the slow food movement or cooperatives), people working on decolonising the imagination through new concepts, and people engaged in direct actions and demonstrations or principled party politics.
IPS Inter Press Service Claudia Ciobanu 2010
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These include people opposing mega-projects or supporting alternatives (such as transition towns, the slow food movement or cooperatives), people working on decolonising the imagination through new concepts, and people engaged in direct actions and demonstrations or principled party politics.
IPS Inter Press Service Claudia Ciobanu 2010
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It was a strategy to maintain the church's powerful political position in a decolonising Rwanda.
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It grew up in a different age, more socially liberal, more free-spirited and more trusting of what a new generation of young Jamaicans could achieve in a decolonising society.
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