11.   Other former colonies of Britain and other European powers in Africa and other parts of the world have similar post-independence carryover grievances against their former colonial masters.

12.   Senegal, making its first appearance in the World Cup, had defeated none other than France, the reigning champion and its former colonial master.

13.   Some smaller island nations and territories relied on former colonial masters like Britain and France to protect them.

14.   The battle has centered on a quest for export pipelines bypassing Russia, the former colonial master of the region.

15.   The days when Indians wrote novels in English either to flatter or rail against their colonial masters are well behind us.

16.   The Japanese first sought to ward off the West, then to compete with the West and finally to replace the West as the colonial master of Asia.

17.   Unlike Cameroon, which had competed before, Senegal not only was playing its first Cup match, but knocking heads with its former colonial masters.

18.   Others pointed out that democracy could not come without development and insisted the old colonial masters should do more to help.

19.   All the others were eventually accepted as immigrants by Portugal, the former colonial master of East Timor, after intervention by the Red Cross.

20.   An Australian bureaucrat has been appointed the new chief of the South Pacific Commission which links tiny island states with their current or former colonial masters.