Bougainville’s Long Goodbye to Colonialism - WhoWhatWhy

Bougainville’s Long Goodbye to Colonialism - WhoWhatWhy

The collapse of the world’s leading colonial empires, which occurred in the 1950s, left much of the latter half of the 20th century in turmoil, as one newly independent former colony after another sought to define its own identity and carve out its place in the global economy.  The Autonomous Region of Bougainville hopes to gain independence from Papua New Guinea (PNG) in September 2027, in what could be the latest and possibly final act in the…