SUCCESSFUL REVOLUTION OR WAR OF LIBERATION



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
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