Stuart Hall

I'm the blackest member of my family. You know, these mixed families produce children of all colors, and in Jamaica, the question of exactly what shade you were, in colonial Jamaica, that was the most important question. Because you could read off class and education and status from that. I was aware and conscious of that from the very beginning.

British Activist

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

Indian Statesman

Nelson Mandela

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

South African Statesman

Fidel Castro

England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.

Statesman

Denise Lewis

I'm a big champion of talking about Britain's colonial past but the important thing is not hiding it away and giving a true account of history.

British Athlete

John Paul Stevens

Colonial history contains many examples of firearm regulations in urban areas that imposed obstacles to their use for protection of the home.

Judge

Sidney Poitier

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

American Actor

Samora Machel

The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.

Leader

Ryszard Kapuscinski

I'll tell you what colonial experience is.

Polish Journalist

Paolo Gentiloni

Italian Politician

Understand the era or event when a nation governed other territories.

Historical Context

Reflects a period where control and cultural imposition were prominent.

Power Dynamics

Indicates the timeframe when a region was under foreign control.

Historical Period

Signifies structures or objects reflective of a colony's culture.

Cultural Heritage

May imply use of designs from the colonial era, not necessarily old objects.

Design Reference

Refers to people who were part of a colonial system, often appears in historical texts.

Historical Identity

Conveys how societies functioned within the colonial framework.

Societal Focus

 That one is like all these animals with their mouths hooked together, the colonial animals. Some animals are tiny, some can be longer than this stage. Just amazing animals. And you can't collect them with a net -- we have to go with our cameras and take a look at them. So every time we go, new species of life. The ocean is full of life.

Deep ocean mysteries and...

 just understanding what were precontact foods, precolonial foods. And I realized that that term didn't even really make a lot of sense to people. So I think it's really important to go through the storyline because to understand colonial or what is a precolonial food, you have to understand colonialism itself.

Sean Sherman: Why aren't...

 and suddenly this giant sea monster started rolling past. It's called a pyrosome or colonial tunicate, if you like. This wasn't what we were looking for. We were looking for corals, deep sea corals. You're going to see a picture of one in a moment. It's small, about five centimeters high.

The secrets I find on...

 received a poem from one of colonial America’s most famous writers. Its verses praised the burgeoning revolution, invoking the goddess of their new nation to aid the general’s righteous cause. But this ode to liberty wasn’t written by some aloof, aristocratic admirer.

Why did Phillis Wheatley...

 Yet, at the time, the country's white minority colonial government sought to discredit this theory because it challenged the legitimacy of their rule. In fact, the government actively encouraged historians to produce accounts that disputed the city's African origins.

Who built Great...

 inextricably linked to the structural and systemic legacies of our colonial and apartheid past and so every single day I see resilience I see strength I see dignity and pride the industry of photography is not separate to the industry to the world which we

Storytellers Summit Day...

 In some places, like parts of India, Western-style divorce laws have been seen as a colonial influence and communities practice divorce according to other religious rules. In others, though the law may allow for equal access to divorce,

When did humans start...

 what to do, how to go about it, a people long subjected to the intellectual guidance and direction of others, be they the colonial masters, aid industry or international news media. But it is a task that we have to do to make progress.

How Africa can use its...

 nations looked over looked across the spectrum of really wrecked landscapes and and adopted a program of state-sponsored conservation to protect their remaining estates in too many cases colonial holdings from the ravages

How fire shapes...

 other nations followed, with colonial empires spreading the system around the world. As France's main rival, Britain had resisted revolutionary ideas and retained its traditional units.