Frantz Fanon
The Wretched of the Earth Book
The Wretched of the Earth Book
An essay on what colonies need to do to throw off the shackles of colonialism and imperialism. An interesting read but I did find it very heavy going and repetitive. The author worked in Algeria in the 1950s and became a supporter of the anti-colonial forces until expelled. The work is very pertinent to today in many ways and although I was interested in the content I found myself reading the words and not taking them in. I did persevere as this is a classic work (when I gave it to Oxfam Bookshop the guy said that he was glad to take it as it is THE classic work) on the subject but I put it down about half way through.
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