The Katipunan (KKK) was a revolutionary group that fought for the country's independence against Spanish colonists in 1896.

The British built Rangoon was, of course, the Victorian colonizer s response to what Lewis called the unsubstantial glories of Mandalay.

India s democracy in a post colonial setting has relevant lessons for Africa.

Indeed, it seemed more concerned with protecting the interests of sovereignty claimants than with assisting the colonial people of a Territory to achieve decolonization.

In South Korea, one of the most painful legacies of the Japanese colonial period stems from the Korean elite s widespread collaboration at the time.

Modelled on the British public school, and funded by the colonial administration, Government College had been established in 1929 to educate Nigeria's future elite.

Achebe challenged the 20th century philosophy of fiction as a pretty object d art, arriving with works which foregrounded the human condition and told the wondering world that the clotheless Emperor was, indeed, naked!

Hundreds of years ago, a handful of European countries colonized whole continents and organized once independent or loosely related peoples into nation states, under a common colonial language.

The British built Rangoon was, of course, the Victorian colonizer s response to what Lewis called the unsubstantial glories of Mandalay. As he put it, These massive columns now rise with shabby dignity from the tangle of scavenging dogs and sprawling, ragged bodies at their base.