I am speaking of the irrepressible
presence in Fanon’s critical vision of an openness to the universal: its demand
for the resumption by the colonized subject of the “universality inherent in
the human condition”; its insistence that “there will be an authentic
disalienation only to the degree to which things, in the most materialistic
meaning of the word, will have been restored to their proper places; and,
consequently, its proleptic narration of the story of the “colonial world” from
the standpoint of a vision of “human things”.
-Ato Skeyi-Otu, Fanon’s Dialectic of
Experience, 1996
