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  • Frantz Fanon

    Decolonising development with Frantz Fanon

    Originally published: The Bullet on September 25, 2023 by Benjamin Selwyn (more by The Bullet) (Posted Sep 26, 2023)

    The great cultural theorist Stuart Hall called Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth “the bible of decolonisation” as it encapsulated the urge for freedom across the colonial world. Fanon illuminates how racism represented an organising principle for capitalist classes by systematically devaluing the lives of the majority of the world’s population.