AFAMAST 1122 African Civilizations 1870 to the Present Response Assignment #3 on Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (read the Preface, pp.

AFAMAST 1122

African Civilizations 1870 to the Present

Response Assignment #3 on Frantz Fanon's

The Wretched of the Earth

(read the Preface, pp. 1-144 ("On Violence," "Grandeur and Weakness of Spontaneity," and

"The Trials and Tribulations of National Consciousness"), and 235-239 ("Conclusion")

Due Tuesday March 27

As clearly and concisely as possible, please answer the following questions. Your answer should

be approximately three pages in length, typed and double-spaced. Please provide citations for

any quotes you use from the text.

In the first paragraph of

The Wretched of the Earth

, Fanon writes that "decolonization is always

a violent event." Later (page 3) in the same chapter, Fanon argues that "In its bare reality,

decolonization reeks of red-hot cannonballs and bloody knives. For the last can be the first only

after a murderous and decisive confrontation between the two protagonists [the colonizer and the

colonized]." Why does Fanon believe it is necessary that decolonization be achieved through

violence? What does Fanon believe will happen if violence is not used? Do you agree or disagree

with Fanon that violence is absolutely necessary to decolonization? In answering this last

question, feel free to cite examples not only from Fanon, but from other course materials,

including material covered in class lectures and the film

The Battle of Algiers