Past in Perspective.

'In colonial conquest, language did to the mind what the sword did to the bodies of the colonised.'

-Ngugi wa Thiong'o

The colonisation project of the world outside Europe left deep marks on the regions that experienced Western colonisation. The civilizational mission changed the traditional societies and traditions upside down. Not only the thinking of the colonised people was stunted, but the process of European colonisation also forced the colonial nations to accept the stereotypes against the non-Europeans, which were only propagated to perpetuate the rule of white nations on people of colour. One of the most potent weapons that have left the people divided in the formerly colonised parts of the earth was language.

Imposing the languages like French and English on the occupied people had far-reaching consequences on the thinking of people...