Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence.
— Frantz Fanon Modern

Postcolonial theory

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The Wretched of the Earth

Date / Period

1961

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Controversial

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https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7638-colonialism-is-not-a-thinking-machine-nor-…

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