Study Questions: Decolonization: Frantz Fanon, excerpts from The Wretched of the Earth

 

·        According to Fanon, what is the effect of colonialism on culture? Why is this so important?

·        What does Fanon mean when he writes that the colonizers need to “paint the natives”?

·        According to Fanon, what are the two ways that national liberation can come about?

·        What is the purpose of the Césaire writing included by Fanon? Who do the mother and rebel represent?

·        Why, according to Fanon, will the colonized first attack their own people?