Editing Frantz Fanon (section)

=== ''A Dying Colonialism'' ===

''[[A Dying Colonialism]]'' is a 1959 book by Fanon that provides an account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria fought their oppressors. They changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as "primitive," in order to destroy the oppressors. Fanon uses the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution as a point of departure for an explication of the inevitable dynamics of colonial oppression. The militant book describes Fanon's understanding that for the colonized, “having a gun is the only chance you still have of giving a meaning to your death.”<ref>Summary of "A Dying Colonialism" by Publisher Grove Atlantic. Viewed on 15 January 2019. [https://groveatlantic.com/book/a-dying-colonialism/].</ref> It also contains one of his most influential articles, "Unveiled Algeria", that signifies the fall of imperialism and describes how oppressed people struggle to decolonize their "mind" to avoid assimilation.