From Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth The town belonging to the colonized people, or at least…
The lack of food, clothing, fuel and light portrays the material poverty of people subjected to colonial exclusion. The passage connects hunger with deprivation and…
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From Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth
The town belonging to the colonized
people, or at least the native town, the
negro village, the medina, the reservation,
is a place of ill fame, peopled by men of
evil repute. They are born there, it matters
little where or how; they die there, it
matters not where, nor how. The native
town is a hungry town, starved of bread, of
meat, of shoes, of coal, of light. The native
town is a crouching village, town on its
knees, a town wallowing in the mire. The
look that the native turns on the settler is a
look of lust, of envy…. The colonized man
is an envious man. And this the settler
knows very well… It is true, for there is
no native who does not dream at least once
a day of setting himself up in the settler’s
place.
(From Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of
The Earth)
Why is the ‘native town’ a hungry
town ?
1. it did not have agricultural
farms
2. it did not have markets
3. the blacks were steeped in
poverty
4. they were denied their
fundamental rights by the
Whites.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer B
The lack of food, clothing, fuel and light portrays the material poverty of people subjected to colonial exclusion. The passage connects hunger with deprivation and domination, rather than establishing that the town simply has no farms or markets.
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