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National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.

Frantz Fanon

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Frantz Fanon
Age: 36 †
Born: 1925
Born: July 20
Died: 1961
Died: December 6
Essayist
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Fort of France
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