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  • Le colonialisme ne se satisfait pas d'enserrer le peuple dans ses mailles, de vider le cerveau colonise   de toute forme et de tout contenu. Par une sorte de perversion de la logique, il s'oriente vers le passe   du peuple opprime  , le distort, le de  figure, l'ane  antit. Colonialismisnot satisfiedmerely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content. Bya kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures and destroys it.

    - Frantz Omar Fanon
    Les Damne  s de la terre ( The Wretched of the Earth, translated by Constance Farrington,1965), ch.4,'On National Culture'.

  • Le colonialisme accule le peuple domine   a'   se poser constamment la question: 'Qui suis-je en re  alite  ?' Colonialism forces the people it dominates to ask themselves the question constantly: 'In reality, who am I?' f

    - Frantz Omar Fanon
    Les Damne  s de la terre ( The Wretched of the Earth, translated by Constance Farrington,1965), ch.5,'Colonial War and Mental Disorders'.

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