L8 - Concerning Violence

Question 1

‘Decolonisation is truly the creation…(Fanon)

Answer 1

of new men. but such a creation cannot be attributed to a supernatural power - the ‘thing’ colonised becomes a man through the very process of liberation

Question 2

(Fanon 1961:37)

Answer 2

‘For the colonised subject, objectivity is always directed against him.’

Question 3

Colonialism is not a thinking….

Answer 3

‘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.’