A Dying Colonialism

Frantz Fanon's seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of theAlgerian Revolution. Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanonwas one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of suchseminal works of modern revolutionary theory as The Wretched of the Earthand Black Skin, White Masks. He has had a profound impact on civil rights,anticolonialism, and black consciousness movements around the world. ADying Colonialism is Fanon's incisive and illuminating account of how,during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-oldcultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices longderided by their colonialist oppressors as "primitive," in order to destroythose oppressors. Fanon uses the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution as apoint of departure for an explication of the inevitable dynamics ofcolonial oppression. This is a strong, lucid, and militant book; to read itis to understand why Fanon says that for the colonized, "havi