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Colonisation is as Much a Psychological Project as it is a Political One

Fanon's Theory of Oppression & Liberation Has Never Been More Relevant

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Zahra
Apr 04, 2025
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Colonialism establishes itself in violence and survives by refining it. This is well established and has been documented by minds far greater than my own. However, there is a kind of colonial violence not immediately visible. A violence that doesn’t mutilate and disfigure the bodies of its victims, but disfigures the mind. Frantz Fanon, the psychiatrist…

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