The naked truth of decolonization evokes for us the searing bullets and bloodstained knives which emanate from it. For if the last shall be first, this will only come to pass after a murderous and decisive confrontation between the two protagonists.
— Frantz Fanon Modern

Postcolonial theory

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The Wretched of the Earth

Date / Period

1961

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Humorous

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