Despite the anachronism of the colonial enterprise
as alluded to earlier, some colonial
powers still refused to grant independence to their possessions thereby
necessitating revolutionary or
liberation struggles by the colonized people to attain independence and
sovereign existence.
The case of the
lusophone territories in Africa has
already been made reference
to. Angola, Mozambique,
guinea Bissau and cape verde could only gain their independence
between 1973 and 75 after a bitter and protracted struggle with
their colonial hegemony- Portugal.
The case of Zimbabwe, Namibia and
south Africa is also well known. These
territories could attain independent sovereignty in 1980, 1989, and 1994 respectively, only after a “long
and bloody” war of liberation. In the
same vein, France did not see it fit to grant independence to its
Algerian possession until many years of
a bitter war of independence forced its
hands in 1962.
Outside the African continent, the thirteen
British colonies in north America had to
wage its own war of independence
against the British crown before it could be recognized
as the independent and sovereign state that came to be known as the Untied State of
America in 1776