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Be prepared to experiment with multiple approaches , including performance study and reviewing ; source study ; and feminist , historicist , and post-colonial criticism . The celebration of the bicentenary of Haitian independence ( 2004 ) provides an opportunity to reassess the centrality of Toussaint Louverture to post-colonial history , culture and literature . African History and the Social Sciences : key features of African states ; social and economic change and the dilemmas of development ; globalisation and conflict in the post-colonial era ; environmental history and politics . His primary research areas are 19th and 20th century colonial and post-colonial history , with particular attention paid to nationalism , education , and urban life . In the 1960s and 1970s , international development assistance grew dramatically as the United Nations and individual donor nations responded to the development needs of post-colonial states .