The circumstances of the colonial power's departure, for example, remain an important and often contested starting point to stories of independence. In general, broad-brush narrative histories of decolonisation provide slim pickings for remembered independence, largely on account of their Eurocentrism and the mixture of order and disorder in decolonisation as viewed from the metropolis. While for the scholar, 'decolonisation' is a useful concept to think through the broader processes of reconfiguring the relations between imperial centres and colonial peripheries, political actors in the former colony rather tended, and tend, to think in terms of 'independence'. The term independence has an inherent appeal to an ideal and is therefore readily drawn on by different groups claiming moral high ground. This chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.