POLB90H3 Study Guide - Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, Frantz Fanon, Indirect Rule
14 Dec 2013
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Franz fanon (1925-1961) was a black, martinique born psychiatrist who joined the algerian struggle for independence from france. The wretched of the earth and black skin white masks, his work inspired postcolonial thought along with many liberation struggles. Imperial thought of european supremacy caused engendered inferiority of the colonized cultures. Indigenous elites could be seen as hybrids because they were mostly european educated and had adopted european thinking in terms of development as western industrial progress. He writes about the native intellectual and critiques their representation of pre-colonial cultures. He is critical of this because he feels nothing about pre-colonial history resonates with everyday people and thus wont help today"s problems. He feels the only way to shake the impact of colonialism is through violent revolution to rid the country of colonial rule. Colonialism is destructive to the esteem and culture of colonized regions and the effects are long term and engendered in thinking.
