1.   Children of employees on the large commercial farms - still mainly run by whites - suffer problems left from the colonial past.

2.   Christianity in Africa is tied up with its colonial past.

3.   The steamship and the railway, the legacy of the colonial past and the expansive power of commerce make this inevitable.

4.   ...a country ready to throw off the shackles of its colonial past.

5.   England is influenced by its recent colonial past, and Germany is undergoing the strains of unification and the integration of migrant Poles and Turks.

6.   France does not find it easy to reconcile the legacies of its colonial past with its republican ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity.

7.   In Zimbabwe, he said, he was aware of its colonial past.

8.   It linked two Mediterranean cities, Algiers and Oran, that are redolent in their whitewashed palaces and villas of the French colonial past.

9.   Japanese officials, apparently seeing a rare opportunity to mend ties with their neighbor, seem ready to reciprocate by making an unusually humble apology for the colonial past.

10.   Mozambique suffered from a miserable colonial past, civil war, corruption, and a Marxist government that ran the economy into the ground.