Since colonized elites played a crucial part in exploiting their own people (even if they did so under the protection of the colonizer), it is too simplistic to assign all the blame to the colonizers. Thus, postcolonialism attempts to offer a more nuanced analysis of colonialism and its repercussions, particularly with respect to the ways in which the relationship between former colonizer and colonized continues to shape the realities of both groups in the contemporary world.

Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, loc. 259