Word: colonialist
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...British colonialist and philanthropist Cecil Rhodes created the scholarship in his will...
...that U.S. liberators may soon become hated occupiers. Arab regimes worry that an occupation will be Osama bin Laden's dream come true: a rallying cry for Islamic extremism not just in Iraq but throughout the Middle East. While Arab governments are wary of a U.S. occupation and its colonialist overtones, they equally fear the consequences if the Bush administration, after seeing too many G.I. casualties, withdraws from Iraq before the country is put on a sound footing...
...clout and cut its big farm subsidies. Further afield, the Foreign Minister gets upset about the "hyper power" of the United States but has little to offer as a realistic alternative. Attempts at Middle East mediation have come to nothing. West Africa, where Paris continued to play a neo-colonialist role after the end of empire, is a mess...
...home country, a colony modeled on Mozambique. Willie stays there some 18 years, during which he never quite blends into the lives of either the Africans or the Portuguese. He has a sordid affair with Graça, a married woman equally hot for him. Meanwhile, anti-colonialist guerrillas edge closer to independence and toward forcing cultural hybrids like Ana and Willie to choose sides...
...blackness: love of watermelon, fried foods and well-told stories that may not reside solely in the land of fact. Unconditional love for Stevie Wonder. Half-moons under my fingernails. Rhythm. A fondness for cities, for picking bones clean. A collectivist rather than colonialist view of the world. A behind of consequence. My father...