Bad Quote by Uzodinma Iweala

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

— Barack Obama

And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving…

— Wangari Maathai

I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we…

— Anonymous

The history of colonialism is long and bloody. And it continues today, in the shape of Western arrogance vis-à-vis everyone else. "Us against the…

— Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

Colonialism is the massive fog that has clouded our imaginations regarding who we could be, excised our memories of who we once were, and…

— Waziyatawin

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

— Imran Khan

Colonialism has a bad reputation in the modern context, but Colonial Africa was a far better place for both black and white before the…

— Jeff Cooper

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

Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the…

— Yann Martel

The darkest aspects of imperialism are still very much prevalent in many cultures around the world; hundreds of years later, and we have a…

— Johan Renck

Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what…

— Antony Beevor

The thing that was bad about colonialism, and the thing which is residually bad in some of our aid programs, is that it involved…

— Paul Romer