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Paper short abstract:

The reflection on the challenges of decolonization in Africa remains current and active in any intellectual or political discourse on the state of the nation of many African states, still after about six decades from the moment in which many of them became independent

Paper long abstract:

The present work seeks to deconstruct, departing from the theses of Frantz Fanon, especially those formulated in the "Wretched of the Earth", the idea of a supposed civilizing mission, underlying the colonizing intention embodied in the equation "colonization equals civilization and paganism equals savagery. " On the basis of an inquiry about the questionable validity of the above-mentioned equation, he crossed facts to the doctrines dealing with the phenomenon of the colonization of Africa. Fanon conceived, with some objectivity, that the colonization of Africa was more a movement of depersonalization and objectification - of Africans in general and of black people in particular - than a project of humanization and emancipation of the black African natives. It became clear, throughout his work, that colonization was a violence based on the nominalization of the colonized. A violence that not only presided over the arrangement of the colonial world, but also rhythmed and nurtured the anthropological and ontological destruction of the black African, including all its social forms; it completely destroyed its systems of economic references, its "essendi et operandi" modes and decreed the socio-cultural crisis of the black African people.