He converted to Islam around 1861, and made common cause with other Wolof and Fulani states to resist French colonialism.
Some argue that in colonized states, nationalist archaeology was used to resist colonialism and racism under the guise of evolution.
But the clause then "affirms the right of peoples to resist foreign occupation and colonialism and racial discrimination and their right to struggle for independence."
His work, becoming well known in the 1940s, often addressed Haiti's history of resisting colonialism and slavery.
Northern and southern Mexico resisted colonialism in different ways.
To the Indians who lived in the turbulent years just after the Conquest, native religion represented the best possible reason to resist colonialism.
The native people resisted colonialism in other ways, too.
The indigenous people also employed the new writing system, another Spanish innovation, to resist colonialism.
For this reason it can be said that the Yaquis were more successful than most Mexican Indians in resisting Spanish colonialism.
The Maya thus borrowed an element of Christianity and used it to resist colonialism.