![]() ![]() He spent the last years of his life in Algeria where he supported the Algerian war of independence. Fanon, although born in Martinique, studied in France where he became a doctor and psychologist. To answer this question, let’s first have a look at the ideas of Frantz Fanon when it comes to the colonized world. Does this mean that the ideas of Fanon are outdated? In sum: to what extend are Frantz Fanon his ideas about a Manichaean colonized world still relevant in the present day? This idea of primordialism is dead in the academic life. This approach sees the ethnic group as a natural community, a common bond given by nature. With this view, Fanon can be linked to the concept of primordialism. Fanon describes the colonized world as a Manichaean world, a world inhabited by two different species: the colonizer (good) against the colonized (evil). This fight always comes with violence and has to end with the toppling of the colonizers. The reggae singer Bob Marley describes with these lyrics a vision that is also a main point in Frantz Fanon his Wretched of the Earth: the fight between good and evil in the process of decolonization. As we are confident in the victory of good over evil” ![]() ![]() We Africans will fight, we find it necessary. “ Until the ignoble and unhappy regime that hold our brothers have been toppled, utterly destroyed, everywhere is war. ![]()
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