What does "postcolonial" mean?

A person living in a postcolonial society.

Postcolonial

Common synonyms include: colonised, decolonial pedagogy, postcolonial criticism, postcolonial historiography, postcolonial writing, postindependence.

adj, noun

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Noun

Adjective

1
Following the end of colonial rule. not-comparable
"In the postcolonial period, democracy alternated with military rule."
2
Of or pertaining to postcolonialism. not-comparable
"a postcolonial theory of esthetics"

"In the postcolonial period, democracy alternated with military rule."

From post- + colonial.