precolonial
- adjective
- /ˌpriːkəˈloʊniəl/
- Politics and state in precolonial Africa were lineage-based.
- precolonial society
- precolonial African
- precolonial period
Examples
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I will focus on the Kenyan and Zairian cases as representative of eastern and central African precolonial societies.
Academic text (1995) -
Kirango Bamana trace their descent from the precolonial Segou state.
Academic text (1994) -
In addition, they maintained much of the precolonial political organization.
Academic text (1995) -
Such a theory is possible only by bringing precolonial societies back to the center of the debate.
Academic text (1995) -
The "time of the ancestors" is a period that Western history equates with the precolonial era.
Academic text (1999) -
Thus, both authors, contrary to most analyses of contemporary Africa, take seriously African precolonial societies.
Academic text (1995) -
Ekpongkara's parent organization, Kekpan, in precolonial times constituted a powerful court.
Academic text (2008) -
Probably the exhibition's single most significant contribution is the uncelebrated sculpture from precolonial figurative traditions, many of which continue today.
Academic text (1994) -
Nationalist myths about great precolonial empires created a sense of oneness that had been absent in colonial states.
Academic text (1993) -
Many precolonial societies had rich traditions and cultural practices that shaped their identities.
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Etymology
Precolonial comes from the prefix pre- meaning 'before' and colonial, from colony meaning 'a place controlled by another country'. So precolonial describes people, art, or times that existed before colonization.