Ireland not being coloured as colonised is sending me. I understand it's Europe but how are you going to exclude one of the prototypical examples of colonialism?? Many of the colonies on this map were modeled after the Irish experience. Also love how French Guiana, a literal actual still extant colony in South America (see the little sliver of grey in the north), is labeled as "Europe" because it's technically a metropolitan province of France (like Algeria was). And Liberia never being colonised by Europe because it was actually colonised by freed American slaves who went "back" to Africa to then immediately set up a horrifying simulacrum of American slavery by enslaving the indigenous Liberians and having actual slave labour until the 1920s. Real "oppressed merely dreams of becoming the oppressor" hours. And of course Korea was a very explicit colony of Japan for decades.
Liberia was practically a dictatorship for most of its existence. Elections were not fair and fraud was ridiculous. The US controlled almost every aspect of the army and the government. Then, when the American-Liberian president William Tolbert began to make reforms, pushing away the US and initiating relations with the USSR and China, the US supported a native coup by Samuel Doe, which started massacres and repression supported by the US. Until Charlie Taylor attempted a coup in 1989 that broke the country and started an open civil war
Ireland not being coloured as colonised is sending me. I understand it's Europe but how are you going to exclude one of the prototypical examples of colonialism?? Many of the colonies on this map were modeled after the Irish experience. Also love how French Guiana, a literal actual still extant colony in South America (see the little sliver of grey in the north), is labeled as "Europe" because it's technically a metropolitan province of France (like Algeria was). And Liberia never being colonised by Europe because it was actually colonised by freed American slaves who went "back" to Africa to then immediately set up a horrifying simulacrum of American slavery by enslaving the indigenous Liberians and having actual slave labour until the 1920s. Real "oppressed merely dreams of becoming the oppressor" hours. And of course Korea was a very explicit colony of Japan for decades.
Liberia was practically a dictatorship for most of its existence. Elections were not fair and fraud was ridiculous. The US controlled almost every aspect of the army and the government. Then, when the American-Liberian president William Tolbert began to make reforms, pushing away the US and initiating relations with the USSR and China, the US supported a native coup by Samuel Doe, which started massacres and repression supported by the US. Until Charlie Taylor attempted a coup in 1989 that broke the country and started an open civil war
French guyana lmao