We talk about the cultural and psychological aspects of colonialism and decolonization. We also discuss five forms of survival that are essential for a colonized people in their resistance against colonialism.

Recommended Readings:

Decolonizing the Mind by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

We talk about Fanon and some of his ideas about settler-colonialism and the use of violence in the decolonization struggle. We also discuss briefly Fanon's exclusion of Islam from his works on Algerian resistance to colonialism. 

Recommended Readings:

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

A Dying Colonialism by Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon and the Psychology of Oppression by Hussein Abdilahi Bulhan

This is the first podcast from our series on settler-colonialism. We talk about the threat of physical and symbolic elimination that we are faced with.

Recommended readings:

1. Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native by Patrick Wolfe.

2. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 by Rashid Khalidi.