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colonial

[kuh-loh-nee-uhl] / kəˈloʊ ni əl /


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The two Black Cubans, self-taught artists from the crumbling and densely populated colonial heart of Havana, are the face of an art movement that inspired the largest peaceful protests in the regime’s history.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

There have been many devastating school fires in Kenya, where boarding schools are common as a colonial legacy of missionaries and the British.

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

It survived colonial rule, a bloodied partition, the tumult of independence and Delhi's transformation into a sprawling megacity.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

He told the BBC that as a former British colony, Kenya's relationship with France was different because it was not shaped by the same colonial history as West African countries.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

“Our lot was eighty years of colonial rule,” she translated, and then she stopped.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver




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