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Decolonization
Decolonization is the historical process through which colonized peoples dismantled European imperial rule and established political sovereignty, occurring most intensively between approximately 1945 and 1975.
Overview
The process transferred political authority from colonial powers to new states across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific, fundamentally reorganizing global politics and dissolving empires that had structured world affairs since the fifteenth century. Economically, it raised enduring questions about dependency and resource extraction — whether formal independence translated into genuine self-determination.
Why it matters
Decolonization produced the post-1945 international system of formally sovereign states and inspired decades of development theory, while triggering large-scale migrations and border conflicts rooted in arbitrarily drawn colonial boundaries whose reverberations persist today. Intellectually, thinkers such as Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire advanced a profound critique of colonial knowledge systems that shaped philosophy, literature, and political theory worldwide.
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