The Following Is an Excerpt from Franz Fanon's the Wretched

question 68

Multiple Choice

The following is an excerpt from Franz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (Evaluating the Evidence 28.3) . In it, he discusses the role of violence in decolonization: "National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the heading used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon. At whatever level we study it-relationships between individuals, new names for sports clubs, the human admixture at cocktail parties, in the police, on the directing boards of national or private banks-decolonization is quite simply the replacing of a certain 'species' of men by another 'species' of men. Without any period of transition, there is a total, complete, and absolute substitution. . . ."
According to Fanon, decolonization

• A)is always violent.
• B)is best accomplished peacefully.
• C)is impractical.
• D)only results in superficial changes.

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