Controlling Violence By Frantz Fanon

Decolonization is the act of dismantling colonization or freeing a country that has been held captive. Decolonization is set out to change the order of the world, which is a program of complete disorder. But it cannot come as a result of magical practices or of a natural shock, or friendly understanding. Decolonization is more than coming to an agreement, but a way of surviving a colonized place. Frantz Fanon explains decolonization and the effects of it. Fanon believes that decolonization is the creation of a new man and later explains that “creation owes nothing to its ‘legitimacy to any supernatural power’, which has been colonized becomes man during the same process which frees itself”(Controlling Violence). Frantz Fanon argues in favor …show more content…
It is a historical process that cannot ne understood, it cannot become any clearer to itself, expect by the movements, which give it historical form and content. Colonial rule is maintained through violence and there is a need for violence when decolonization is taking place. This violence comes from the radicalized views that the colonizer has about the colonized subjects. The colonizer often imprints the colonized subject with ideas of underdevelopment and a lack of empathy and rationality. Therefore, the colonial subject is ‘dehumanized’ in the process of colonialism, which in extent turns or allows the colonial subject to be seen as an animal. Fanon states, “You do not turn any society, however primitive it may be, upside down with such a program if you have not decided from the very beginning to overcome all obstacles that you will come across in so doing. The native, who decides to put the program into practice, and to come its moving force, is ready for violence at all times. From birth, it is clear this world strewn with prohibitions, can only be called in question by absolute violence.” (Fanon. Concerning Violence) Fanon explains the importance of violence when colonization and decolonization is in act. There cannot be one without the other when trying to take control of or take control …show more content…
The first encounter marked by the violence, exportation of nature by the settler. In decolonization, there is a need of calling into question of the colonial situation. Fanon describes it as the saying, “ The last shall be first and the first shall be last.” Fanon believes that the quote above describes decolonization and that is why it is successful. Decolonization never takes place unnoticed because it influences individuals and adjust them fundamentally whether it is the colonizers or colonial