Authentic self Quote by Mala Naidoo

Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.

— Imran Khan

Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You…

— Wole Soyinka

“The colonialist's existence is so closely aligned with that of the colonized that he will never be able to overcome the argument which states…

— Albert Memmi

“When the [colonial] contact was violent, in fact, failure was more frequent than success. 'Colonialism' may have triumphed in the past: but today it…

— Fernand Braudel

“Under what circumstances would those who are the beneficiaries of colonialism stop denying and choose to act differently?”

— Paulette Regan

“Colonialism was also justified by an elaborate ideology, embodied in everything from Kipling’s poetry and Stanley’s lectures to sermons and books about the shapes…

— Adam Hochschild

“THE COLONIAL PERIOD”

— Charles A. Beard

“The claim to a national culture in the past does not only rehabilitate that nation and serve as a justification for the hope of…

— Frantz Fanon

“All efforts of the colonialist are directed toward maintaining thsi social immobility, and racism is the surest weapon this aim. Racism appears then, not…

— Albert Memmi

“Colonialism oppressed and subverted Africans and remade them as scavengers, pleaders, and servants”

— Paul Theroux

The proud fight against colonialism is one that should be consigned to history.

— Winnie Byanyima

“There was nothing inherently wrong with colonialism, he felt, if its administration was fair and just. He”

— Adam Hochschild