A century ago, what he calls “an irreversible process of intellectual… decolonisation” was under way across this huge region.

据他所说，一个世纪以前，“一场不可逆转的思想非殖民化的过程”正在这一辽阔地区如火如荼地开展。

The further dismantling of Britain's empire would gather pace in the 1950s, particularly from 1957 onwards when the first wave of decolonisation spread across Africa.

大英帝国的进一步瓦解将在 20 世纪 50 年代加快，特别是从 1957 年开始， 当时第一波非殖民化浪潮席卷整个非洲。

And she lived through a lot when you think that she came to the throne in the early years of decolonisation as the British empire was being unstitched.

当你认为她在非殖民化的早期登上王位时，她经历了很多，因为大英帝国正在被拆开。