Mr Mugabe has railed against the country's judiciary as a racist vestige of British colonialism.

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And English has become, thanks to the combination of British colonialism and American commercialism, a global tongue.

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The issue of race, the issue of colonialism that you mentioned earlier to Constance, remember that large parts of the Arab world were under either French colonialism or British colonialism.

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British colonialism firmly established English in the territories that now make up the United States, but the distinctions between American and British English are as important as the shared heritage.

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Kimani Maruge is an 85-year-old Kenyan, a veteran of the Mau Mau uprising against British colonialism in the 1950s, and, as of last year, a full-time pupil at school in rural south-west Kenya.

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The British, fearing accusations of neo-colonialism, say it is a matter for Mr Kabbah.

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Remembering the centuries of colonialism, we might speculate on why British artists don't appear to have been influential here, and it's a generally apolitical array of images, other than two works by Atul Dodiya (b. 1959).

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