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The Wretched of the Earth

by Frantz Fanon

  • FINISHED
  • Finished March 2025
  • First published 1961

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Written during the Algerian war, it examines the violence of colonial rule and the struggle against it.   Fanon discusses the risks that follow independence, including new elites and old divisions.