In The World Through Which

Colinialism Hardly Ever Exploits The Whole Of A Country. It Contents Itself With Bringing To Light The Natrual Resources, Which It Extracts, And Exports To Meet The Needs Of The Mother Country's Industries, Thereby Allowing Certain Sectors Of The Colony To Become Relatively Rich. But The Rest Of The Colony Follows Its Path Of Under-development And Poverty, Or At All Events Sinks Into It More Deeply.

My Intimate Knowledge Of Many Central African Tribes Has Everywhere Convinced Me Of The Necessity That The Negro Does Not Respect Treaties But Only Brute Force.”• General Adrian Dietrich Lothar Von Trotha On German South West Africa “at The Level Of Individuals, Violence Is A Cleansing Force. It Frees The Native From His Inferiority Complex And From His Despair And Inaction, It Makes Him Fearless And Restores His Self-respect.

Every Colonized People-in Other Words, Every People In Whose Soul An Inferiority Complex Has Been Created By The Death And Burial Of Its Local Cultural Originality-finds Itself Face To Face With The Language Of The Civilizing Nation; That Is, With The Culture Of The Mother Country. The Colonized Is Elevated Above His Jungle Status In Proportion To His Adoption Of The Mother Country's Cultural Standards.

One Avoids Creolisms. Some Families Completely Forbid Creole And Mothers Ridicule Their Children For Speaking It.

In The World Through Which I Travel, I Am Endlessly Creating Myself.