The persecution did not end with independence, because in the Americas independence was for the colonials not the colonised – it meant nothing for any indigenous person, Arawak to Zapotec.
The colonised needed compulsory re-education in sexual mores.
Both ideas survive, among the coloniser and the colonised.
Instead, the colonised must create a new culture, defined by force of arms if necessary.
The occupied and the occupier, the coloniser and the colonised, are locked in a deadly embrace.
For both, imperialism is presented primarily not through its effects on the colonised, but as a personal growth experience for the colonisers.
Others consider it to be nothing more than America's most important creation myth, the story of a whitewashed harmony between the coloniser and the colonised.
Fanon's big idea was that, first and foremost, the colonised individual must claim back his or her identity as a human being.
Next year will mark the centenary of the Balfour declaration, a colonial document whose consequences were disastrous for the colonised people of Mandate Palestine and their region.
They were cheerleading for imperialism, and were imbued with an unthinking assumption of the racial superiority of the white colonial adventurer over the colonised native.
Yet if writing about colonialism from the perspective of the colonised amounts to carping, then some Asian, American and African historians are guilty of this.
