Despite the anachronism of the colonial enterprise as alluded to earlier, some colonial powers still refused to grant independence to their possessions thereby necessitating revolutionary or liberation struggles by the colonized people to attain independence and sovereign existence.
The case of the lusophone territories in Africa has already been made reference to. Angola, Mozambique, guinea Bissau and cape verde could only gain their independence between 1973 and 75
after a bitter and protracted struggle with their colonial hegemony- Portugal. The case of Zimbabwe, Namibia and south Africa is also well known. These territories could attain independent sovereignty in 1980, 1989, and 1994 respectively, only after a “long and bloody” war of liberation. In the same vein, France did not see it fit to grant independence to its Algerian possession until many years of a bitter war of independence forced its hands in 1962.
Outside the African continent, the thirteen British colonies in north America had to wage its own war of independence against the British crown before it could be recognized as the independent and sovereign state that came to be known as the Untied State of America in 1776
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