Fuller's sharp-elbowed wit and abrasive dialogue elevated melodrama to the level of a social critique of dull white colonialists and dysfunctional English families.

Many of the characteristics of the white colonialist sprang to life, from a crazy ambition to achieve what I wanted - success and applause.

Unable to tolerate this decision as it would destabilize the slave regime, white colonialists reacted in violence, only to start a civil war with the free and enslaved black people of Haiti.

Pooling community resources, he started buying back the land the Bafokeng had occupied for centuries from white colonialists.

Nnanga Kôn, a 1932 novel by Jean-Louis Njemba Medou, covers the disastrous first contact of white colonialists with the Bulu people.

The term comprador, from the Portuguese 'to buy', has its origins in the employment of the domestic servants of white colonialists in India and China.

Nathan, of course, is meant to represent the patronizing attitude of white colonialists toward Africa - and the devastating legacy of violence they bequeathed to regions like the Congo.

Mr. Mugabe's brand of race-baiting demagoguery plays well in parts of Africa's vast underclass, and to challenge him is to risk being branded a pawn of white colonialists.

(He was referring to the Kenyan nationalist group that attacked white colonialists in the 1950s with threats, violent rhetoric, and terrorist raids.)

Thirty years after independence movements started sweeping white colonialists from the continent, at least three African leaders have found it convenient to make a white man their unofficial No. 2.