I engage a lot with Fanon’s work, but had never read A Dying Colonialism until this week. I’m glad I took the time to sit with this book, about Algeria as a French settler colony and the liberation struggle there that started in 1954. Here are some thoughts 🧵
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What's interesting is that, after 130 years of colonialism, Fanon offers thoughts about the dying, the withering of settler colonial power in Algeria. There's greater relevance of his ideas today, in the context of the global reckoning with histories of colonialism/slavery.