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The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: On Violence and Spontaneity

Red Menace

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The Liberation Struggle

Banan argues that the ritual dance and possession rituals that we see within African spirituality can be best understood as an expression of this exhausted, intentioned colonial act activity. He also notes that as the liberation struggle kicks up, these rituals begin to fade to the background as the colonized are forced to face immediate needs like feeding the poor or surviving violent repression from colonial forces. So Banan turns to asking how we can know if a situation is ready for national liberation and which forces can play a decisive revolutionary role in that struggle.

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