Decolonization

The Wretched of The Earth. By Frantz Fanon. United States of America: Grove Press, New York. 35-316 pp. paper. The Wretched of The Earth by Frantz Fanon was first published by "Francois Maspero Editeur", Paris, France, under the title "Les damnes de la Terre", in the year of 1961. Later in 1963, "Presence Africaine" published The Wretched of The Earth. From then it published simultaneously in Canada and printed in America. Before I proceed I would like to point the spotlight on the name of the…

In relation to his definition of decolonization, Fanon shows that when the fight for national liberation happens, violence should be expected. This expectation comes from the initial encounter between the settlers and the natives. When the settlers take over the country, they did it through the use of violent force, creating hostility between the settlers and the natives. This causes the relationship between the settlers and the natives to be a violent one from the start. This strain in the…

Franz Fanon and his novel The Wretched of the Earth. Fanon wrote this book in order to give a ‘psychiatric and psychological analysis of the dehumanizing effects that colonization had on the natives in order to establish a social movement for the decolonization of the people.’ The Wretched of the Earth was written several weeks before Fanon’s death, but was published posthumously in 1961. In addition to this novel, Fanon also wrote another book, Black Skin, White Masks, in which I will take…

War’s Impact on the Congo War in the Republic of the Congo provided courage to other provinces, who wanted to gain their freedom. The Katanga and South Kasai Provinces benefited from this new hope of independence. These being the first provinces to gain freedom, other countries and provinces became influenced by their actions. The root influence of all of these actions is buried in the history of the Congo. More specifically, the Congo Cold War, and the Congo Civil War. These wars were…

Between the 15th and 19th century, Europeans began to take some interest in Africa and it was not until the mid-18th century that Europeans took more interest in slave trade and natural resources in the continent of Africa. To exploit African countries from their wealth, Europeans tried to accomplish this goal by overpowering African people and forcing them underneath European control. In later years, without the permission of African countries, European nations split up African territories and…

independent states. Nonetheless, in the 20th century, the Middle East faced many ethnic and religious tensions, colonialism and nationalism at the attempt of transforming their crumbling country. Events in the Middle East are similar to events during decolonization in Asia and Africa because they both had issues of colonialism, portrayed nationalism, displayed civil disobedience against the government and included both civil wars and genocides. First of all, experiences in Asia and Africa are…

According to the draft of the declaration was focused on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples. For example, as recent events in the Congo had shown, some countries had not been completely freed from colonial domination in spite of their nominal independence. After this, The United Nations Members were called upon solemnly to proclaim three demands. These demands included the following. First, all colonial countries and Non-Self-Governing Territories must be granted…

through his desire to achieve within the classroom. Similarly, Njoroge from James Ngugi’s novel Weep Not, Child tells a similar story as a young black boy attains maturity in the face of anti-colonialism and the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya during the decolonization of Africa in the 1950s-1960s. Njoroge’s views and perspectives on education transform as Africa shifts from a familiar land to one conquered by violence…

Gandhi emphasizes a passive way to regain authority of a country. The individual selves should devote their humanity and ethics to the create better world. However, Fanon took a different angle. He believed that decolonization is bound to be a chaotic duty that we take on, because only violence can take apart the status quo of the ordering of the world. It seems from the text that both authors agree on the fact that Western colonizers use brute force to gain control…

One of the most challenging legacies of the colonial empires is its boundaries. “Over a hundred new nations were born during the process of decolonization. Most of these new nations, had not existed at all as nations before colonialism, or they had not existed within the post-colonial border.”(Katz,29)(Marker, Effects of Colonization) According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a border (first…