In contrast, the heroes of Africa's own decolonization movement have largely been forgotten, their early idealism long since buried in a bitter legacy of dictatorship, violence and poverty.

The Soviet Union was a main supporter of decolonization movements.

Thus, when the decolonization movement was slowly beginning to emerge in the whole world, he attempted in 1956 to convince Tunisian leader Habib Bourguiba to obtain independence without using violence.

Abderhaman Mami was a prominent figure in Tunisia who partially started the French decolonization movement by the local Tunisian population.

Depestre took an active part in the decolonization movements in France, and he was expelled from French territory.

In the wake of World War II, decolonization movements began to gain momentum in the empires of the European powers.

Prior to the decolonization movements of the post-World War II era, Europeans were represented in every part of Africa.

However, with the rise of the decolonization movement in Africa, the French were obliged to grant limited autonomy to Senegal as a self-governing republic within the French Community.

The newly formed People's Republic of China actively began supporting the decolonization movements in Africa and the Pacific.

Falardeau linked his support for Quebec independence to the struggles for national independence and decolonization movements abroad.