Fanon argued that colonialism doesn't just steal land and resources; it steals self-worth. It creates what he called a "Manichaean" (black-and-white) world: The colonizer is civilized, rational, beautiful. The colonized is primitive, emotional, ugly.
After decades of this propaganda, the colonized person internalizes the lie. They begin to hate their own skin, their own food, their own gods. They look toward the imperial capital (London, Paris, Lisbon) as the center of the universe.
If you think colonialism ended when the flags were lowered, you haven't looked at a global supply chain. The theorists of postcolonialism (particularly Aimé Césaire) warned us about the sequel: .
But that definition, while technically correct, is like describing the ocean as “a body of salt water.” It misses the tides, the depths, the hidden currents, and the monsters lurking in the abyss.
