Frantz Fanon and the Dialetic of Decolonisation

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dc.contributor.advisorNash, Andrewen_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorGaruba, Harryen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorNdlovu, Siphiween_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-29T20:16:10Z
dc.date.available2014-07-29T20:16:10Z
dc.date.issued2010en_ZA
dc.description.abstractIt has been more than five decades since the wave of decolonization swept across Africa. For people on the continent, the rise to power by the former liberation movements brought hope for a better future in the post-colonial state. However later developments showed that independence would, in fact, not change the material and social conditions of the ordinary people. Although the national liberation movement took over the government of the former colony, colonial institutions and structures of power, which were founded on the economic exploitation of the colony, remained unchanged. Thus in this thesis I set out to examine Frantz Fanon’s thought in order to provide a critique of post-independence failures in Africa. I will argue that whilst Fanon shared the same ideals as the anti-colonial movements in their objective to remove colonial regimes from power, that Fanon, in fact, had a critical attitude towards the anti-colonial movement. Whereas the latter conceived of freedom as independence, Fanon conceived of freedom as disalienation, premised on the complete recovery of the black self from the negative effects of colonialism. Thus the study sets out to examine the extent to which Fanon offered an alternative idea of freedom and liberation to the one which was being advanced by the national liberation movements.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationNdlovu, S. (2010). <i>Frantz Fanon and the Dialetic of Decolonisation</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,African Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3571en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationNdlovu, Siphiwe. <i>"Frantz Fanon and the Dialetic of Decolonisation."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,African Studies, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3571en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationNdlovu, S. 2010. Frantz Fanon and the Dialetic of Decolonisation. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Ndlovu, Siphiwe AB - It has been more than five decades since the wave of decolonization swept across Africa. For people on the continent, the rise to power by the former liberation movements brought hope for a better future in the post-colonial state. However later developments showed that independence would, in fact, not change the material and social conditions of the ordinary people. Although the national liberation movement took over the government of the former colony, colonial institutions and structures of power, which were founded on the economic exploitation of the colony, remained unchanged. Thus in this thesis I set out to examine Frantz Fanon’s thought in order to provide a critique of post-independence failures in Africa. I will argue that whilst Fanon shared the same ideals as the anti-colonial movements in their objective to remove colonial regimes from power, that Fanon, in fact, had a critical attitude towards the anti-colonial movement. Whereas the latter conceived of freedom as independence, Fanon conceived of freedom as disalienation, premised on the complete recovery of the black self from the negative effects of colonialism. Thus the study sets out to examine the extent to which Fanon offered an alternative idea of freedom and liberation to the one which was being advanced by the national liberation movements. DA - 2010 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2010 T1 - Frantz Fanon and the Dialetic of Decolonisation TI - Frantz Fanon and the Dialetic of Decolonisation UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3571 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/3571
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationNdlovu S. Frantz Fanon and the Dialetic of Decolonisation. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,African Studies, 2010 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3571en_ZA
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.departmentAfrican Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherAfrican Studiesen_ZA
dc.titleFrantz Fanon and the Dialetic of Decolonisationen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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