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The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: On National Consciousness and National Culture

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The Colonial Mother

Fanon: Colonialism does not just impose itself on the colonized country's present and future, but importantly, it's passed as well. The colonialist distorts and ravages the indigenous people's history, he says. Fanon argues that by ignoring a national culture in favor of a broad, continental-wide African culture, the colonized intellectual plays on the field built by colonialism. And the colonized intellectuals attempt to rehabilitate her people and herself obeys the same rules of logic.

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