THE CONCEPT OF DECOLONIZATION

THE CONCEPT OF DECOLONIZATION

1. IT WAS USED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 1952 AS TITLE OF HIS BOOK ´´COLONIZATION,COLONISLISM,DECOLONIZATIO´´

   • HENRI LABOURET

2. L.S.SENGHOR

   • HAS DEFINED IT AS ´´THE ABOLITION OF ALL PERJUDICE , OF ANY SUPERIOTY COMPLEX IN THE CON SCIOUSNESS OF THE COLONIZED´´

3. E.J.OSMAÑCZYK

   • IT IS ´´ THE PROCESS OF WINDING UP THE COLONIAL SYSTEM IN THE WORLD ´´

4. DECOLONIZATION IS UNDERSTOOD AS THE PROCESS BY WHICH , ON THE ONE HAND

   • COLONISALISM HAS A LEGAL AND POLITICAL END
   • ON THE OTHER ONE , INDEPEDNDET AND SOVEREIGN STATES ARE FORMED

5. EXTERNAL FACTORS

   • THE TWO WORLD WARS
     • WERE THE FUNDAMENTAL EVENTS THAT EXPOSED THE WEAKNESS OF COLONIAL EMPIRES
       • THE COLONIES BECAME AWARE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL ROLE AND DESTROYED THE IMAGE OF SUPERIORITY OF THEIR MEROPOLISES
       • REALIZED THAT THEIR SUBMISSION PREVENTED THEM FROM DEVELOPING
   • THE DOMINATING STATES HAS PROMISED THE GRANTING OG HIGHER LEVELS OF FREEDOM AND ACCESS TO SELF-DETERMINATION
   • INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
     • THE SOCIETY OF NATIONS
       • FAVOURED THE DECOLONIZING
     • THE UNITED STATIONS
       • CREATED THE DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE IN 1961
   • THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOVIET UNION
     • AMERICAN PRESIDENT WILSON , IN HIS FOURTEEN POINTS PROGRAMME , HAD ALREADY DEFENDED SELFDETERMINATION AND THE PRINCIPLE OF NATIONALITIES
   • SOLIDARITY BETWEEN THE COLONIES
     • THE BANDUNG CONFERENCE
       • NEHRU, GAMAL ABDEL NASSEL AND SUKARNO
     • PAN-AFRICANISM , PAN-ASINISM
       • ORGANIZATION FOR AFRICAN UNITY CRATED BY K.NKRUMAH
         • THE OUA UNDER THE DIRECTION OF J.NYERERE