Frantz Fanon's novel "The Wretched of the Earth," is an extremely interesting philosophy on the effects of colonization on the native people and serves as a guide for the oppressed on how to free themselves through radical decolonization (Fanon & Sartre, 1965). Fanon's recommendation to the oppressed native culture is to rid themselves of their colonizers through any means necessary, such as force or violence (Fanon & Sartre, 1965). He believed that the government and leaders who enacted or enforce the concept of colonization onto the native culture were exploiting this native culture and robbing them of their freedom and of their land. "Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well" (Fanon & Sartre, 1965). .
Fanon had acquired this distaste for colonialism and its effects on the native subjects culture through his work as a psychiatrist in France and Algeria during the Algerian War. Fanon lived in a much different (and in some ways, not so different) world than we do today. Fanon was a dark skinned man in a predominantly white nation that didn't much care for minorities and to an even greater extent minorities who worked in respected positions, such as Fanon. In addition to this, Fanon experienced first hand the Algerian civil uprising of the 1950s. He saw the French military and government commit horrible acts of atrocity to many Algerians and without a doubt this played an integral part in the development of his philosophy of decolonization through violence. Fanon held the belief that over time the colonized or native people would grow weary of the hardship they endured at the hands of the colonizers and that they would eventually rise up and revolt against them through force and violence. Also, it is important to note that Fanon believed the only way of achieving freedom through decolonization was through force and violence (Fanon & Sartre, 1965).
