Decolonial Violence and the ‘Native Intellectual’

In Chapter 2, Patricia Tuitt draws on Frantz Fanon’s work, The Wretched of the Earth, and focuses on exploring decolonising movements as they pertain to British universities. The chapter demonstrates how decolonising literature tends to focus on the colonial legacies of universities, arguing that for the most part, they are rooted in past acts which resonate in the presence. The chapter concludes that although Fanon’s text is one of a core group of theoretical works that supply the movements’ intellectual framework; however, as Fanon himself predicted, the central thesis that decolonisation is necessarily a violent phenomena has had limited appeal.