colonizer

Example Sentences

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In "Ya Bon" he criticised current and past African heads of state who he says have maintained a "servile relationship with the coloniser".

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

France's relations with Burkina Faso have sharply deteriorated over the past year, culminating with Ouagadougou giving its former coloniser one month to withdraw troops in January.

From Reuters • Feb. 20, 2023

Seventy-five years since India gained independence, the focus is on how the economy here is growing, rather than the financial woes of its former coloniser.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2022

An annual clash of sporting rivalry tinged with history, former coloniser versus former colony, now with the tables turned.

From The Guardian • Feb. 2, 2019

In the last stage of his address he was the coloniser, the statesman, the social wizard who would recast character and rearrange humanity.

From The Authoritative Life of General William Booth by Railton, George S. (George Scott)