Example sentences for: post-colonial

How can you use “post-colonial” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The first piece was an unsigned Dec. 18 editorial in the Economist , endorsing the opinion of an essayist from the British Foreign Office who considers irony a necessary virtue in a post-colonial world: It "suggests a certain modesty about oneself, one's values, and one's aspirations.

  • In addition to laying the groundwork for "post-colonial" studies as an area of inquiry, the book inspired a flurry of scholarship devoted to "the other"--to groups of people who, by virtue of race, gender, sexuality, or geographical location, are unable to represent themselves and so (to echo the line from Karl Marx that serves as the book's epigraph) "must be represented" by those more powerful.

  • Only in more recent post-colonial times did its natural geography exclude the countries of Pakistan and Bangladesh.

  • Whether, in an age of multinational capitalism, we may talk reasonably about a post-colonial era is way beyond the scope of this article.

  • The opposition army mainly consists of separatists from Shaba and Kasai provinces in East Zaire and supporters of the original post-colonial government, who have battled Mobutu's army sporadically since the dictator's ascent.


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