1. In what ways did the colonial experience and the struggle for independence shape the agenda of developing countries in the second half of the twentieth century?
2. What obstacles confronted the leaders of movements for independence?
3. What obstacles impeded the economic development of decolonized countries?
4. To what extent is the desination 'third world' and appropriate term in describing decolonized regions? why or why not?
5. From the viewpoint of the twenty-first century, to what extent had the goals of nationalist or independence movements been achieved?