A Dying Colonialism

By: Frantz Fanon

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Frantz Fanon’s seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution

Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory as The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks. He has had a profound impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black consciousness movements around the world.

A Dying Colonialism is Fanon’s incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as “primitive,” in order to destroy those oppressors. Fanon uses the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution as a point of departure for an explication of the inevitable dynamics of colonial oppression. This is a strong, lucid, and militant audiobook; to listen to it is to understand why Fanon says that for the colonized, “having a gun is the only chance you still have of giving a meaning to your death.”

©1965 English translation by Monthly Review Press. Originally published in France as L’AN CINQ, DE LA RÉVOLUTION ALGÉRIENNE © 1959 by Francois Maspero (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing

A must-read for any revolutionary.

Now more than ever, Fanon’s works are essential guides to what revolution truly entails. This is my second read, and unfortunately, it could not be more timely. I recommend this read to everyone: we must learn from the Algerian people. Read. ASAP.

Review

Psychological analysis of the Algerian Revolution of the 1950’s. Lots of mumbo-jumbo. 1