Meaning & use
Decolonize
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To free a country or people from colonial status, or to remove colonial influence from institutions, ideas, or practices.
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Many African nations worked to decolonize their political systems after independence.
Scholars are pushing to decolonize university curricula by including more non-Western perspectives.
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Widely used in both historical and modern academic contexts, especially since the mid-20th-century decolonization movements.
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