The United Kingdom is set to hand over the Chagos Islands to the small nation of Mauritius after the deal received approval ...

How the post-colonial foreign presence was dealt with was largely conditioned by how decolonization was settled—the restrictive agreements reached between Indonesia and the Netherlands, and ongoing ...

South Africa, that there was a 'wind of change' blowing through Africa that was bringing independence from the Empire. The British government had accepted that decolonisation had to come to Africa.

Musk was critical of efforts to make Shakespeare more inclusive, sharing posts that described the bard's legacy as "under siege." ...

A grouping of organisations on Monday called for the ‘decolonisation’ of the British bases in Cyprus on the back of reports ...

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Chagos, by the way, was renamed British Indian Ocean Territory. What is India’s stand on decolonization? When the UN was established in 1945, a third of the world lived in colonies. So when ...