In Frantz Fanon Book, the Wretched of the Earth , Fanon Uses a Quote That Illuminate That

Chinua Achebe historic novel, “A Man of the People”, provide a fictional setting thatcontextualizes the political and social climates in post Africans independence in Nigeria. The driving force behind the political and social climateis influence bythe theme of the novel which is political tension within government. This has effect on the population of the country viewinga leader being the “Man of the People”. The main characters within the novel, Odili and Chief Nanga,each play on the dynamics of the Man of the people. Odili, a native of Urua village, is the minister of the culture who is

In Frantz Fanon book, “The Wretched of the Earth”, Fanon uses a quote that illuminate that the fight for freedom from French colonialism in Algeria was necessary if the native Algerians wanted did want to lose their Africans identity by assimilating into the French culture that is was establish in the country. The mobilization of Algerians in fighting for their freedom is seen through Messali Hadj Speech, “Fight against French Imperialism!” Messali, a nationalist who has been involved in high level of protest of French ruling through his organization of the North Africa Star, and one his main social demand was for redistubting land amongst the fellahs, poor peasants. In Messali speech he plant the seeds of a independence movement on Algeria by motivating all Algerians to realize how much French conquest has used the country land, good, resources. In addition Messali has fought against the French implemented this native code”, which are subjective laws that allows French oppression of the Algerians people on their own land.

Also one can link to Fantz Fanon quote to the Student Christian Movement (SCM) in South Africa in the area of bantu education. Bantu education, design by Verwoerd, limited the amount of learning that Africans receive that regulate them to only meeting the needs of the population of country. Martin Meredith reading he discuss how teaching areas of academics studies is useless with teaches the bantu education when child cannot have the opportunity to practice their civic skills Also the bantu education leads a stigma towards Africans in being incapable in being in higher status inside European community in south Africa. This stigma of the bantu education making Africans inferior is convey in the following “ There is no place for him in the European community above the level of certain forms of labor (Martin, 419).” In addition the classes were taught in Afrikaans, a language of Dutch and German origin, student did not like learning Afrikaans because it would make them isolated from the rest world due to there being few people that spoke the language. This African student strike which was invoke on bases of a mission to stand against the Afrikaans language which is label as the language of the “oppressor” being taught within curriculum. All this is mirror in Fanon quote which reflected in the Africans student of south Africa being the generation that evloves from allowing European to take oppression ‘finally make decision to fight against the oppression of the European. The road to liberation of south Africa figure like Steve Biko, anti-apartheid activist, was influential in creating famous slogan “Black is Beautiful” in response to apartheid system for black consciousness. The apartheid system was a hierarchical system based on race, voting rights and land right. Blacks in South Africa were oppressed in this system. The apartheid system also banned the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan African Congress (PAC) from operating within South Africa. As result, this lead to combative action in the struggle against apartheid by members of both congress.

Women contribution to resistance of colonialism was just as important as the men were in there efforts to resist. One of the prominent female in leading resistance movement was Nama Yaa Asantewaa. Asantewaa was the leaders in mobilizing Asante’s people in taking direct action against the British to retain their heritage (Brempong, pg 1). The British wanted to take control of the gold coast region in establishing their policies that would eliminate the Asante people traditional culture which allow British to solidify their rule. The first effort to eliminate the culture was from Frederick Hodgson, the British Governor, who addressed the Asante rulers in surrendering the sacred “Golden Stole” to the British authorities. This was high level disrespect to the Asante people as well as Asantewaa, given that the “golden chair” represented the Asante people and their historical culture. Since most of the Asante male in village weren’t willing to stand up against the British, Asantewaa was essential in mobilizing Asante female in taken stand to protect the chair at all cost. When its comes to how women history was relayed a great explain would be Aba Riots vs Women war. Occurring in southeast Nigeria, The Aba riots was a terminology from the British colonial leaders in not recognizing igbo female rebellion against their taxation and use of indigenous people for their indirect rule history. Also the igbo male recognized the igbo female contribution by calling the rebellion a “women war.” Including both words of “women” and “war” emphasizes “existence of those female political and economic institutions that were never taken into account by British (Allen, 64). However the British viewpoint of naming the igbo women rebellion “Aba riots” is more common in history studies because of the British being the dominant group and igbo being the subordinate group; Allen writes that “the dominant group alone writes history and choice of terminology we be perpetuated. This statement means that a western student who studies southeast region of Nigeria and comes across the British termlogy will not know at first view of term that women were the one involved in the riots into that student studies the term.

The Achebe quote of “Until the lions have their historians, tales of hunt shall always glorify the hunter” has significant meaning studying Africa. The lions who are the Africans and European colonizers represented the hunter, since their no history of pre-colonialism of the different African c the European history of Africa will dominate western study of the continent.