colonialism is not simply content to impose its rule upon the present
and the future of a dominated country. Colonialism is not satisfied merely
with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native’s brain of all
form and content. By a kind of perverse logic, it turns to the past of the
oppressed people, and distorts it, disfigures and destroys it.
(Franz Fanon, The Wretched , 1961)
