Frantz Fanon

Reading Fanon's point of view on colonialism and the problems with the colonized intellect really brought up some interesting points that many of us may not realize today. Fanon is basically saying that the reason some races are not "nationalized" is because of their failiure to reconnect to their past on a global level. Fanon seems to be saying that part of the reason some africans are not unified is becuase of their differences of location, wehreas they can unify and connect if they support and discover more of their past before they were colonized. They need to revive their pasts to help combat the fact that the colonists have told them they are barbaric. Part of what makes this so hard to the colonized intelllect to realize is that the colonist country"turns its attention to the past of the colonized people and distorts it, disfugures it, and destroy it" (149). the colonizing country makes the colonized intellect feel like they come from no where and make them ashamed of their past, when in reality it is this key factor that needs to be reached in order to combat the colonizing country.