Decolonization: Unsung Heroes of the Resistance
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Faced with the Europeans’ machine guns, the colonized hit back in other ways: from civil disobedience to communist revolution, by way of soccer and literature. It was a struggle marked by infinite patience and unlimited determination, fought by heroic men and women now largely unknown.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCondensing a wealth of scholarly research into short, lively chapters,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDecolonization\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ebrings their extraordinary stories to light:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eManikarnika Tambe, the Indian queen who led her troops into battle against the British;\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMary Nyanjiru, the Kenyan activist who spearheaded a protest in Nairobi;\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLamine Senghor, the Senegalese infantryman who became an anti-colonial militant in Paris;\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand many more.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith them, a current of resistance swept the world, culminating in the independence of almost all the colonies in the 1960s. 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No one willingly accepts subjugation, but in order to one day regain freedom, you first and foremost need to stay alive. Faced with the Europeans’ machine guns, the colonized hit back in other ways: from civil disobedience to communist revolution, by way of soccer and literature. 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But at what price? In the atomic India of Indira Gandhi, in the Congo subjected to Mobutu’s dictatorship, or in a London shaken by the rioting of young immigrants, we can see just how crucial it is that we understand and learn from this painful history.\u003c\/p\u003e"}