ABSTRACT
It is now time to move away from analysis to prescription. Fanon, of course, does not think analysis is separable from prescription. To analyze or describe is, in his view, necessarily to prescribe. His concern with analyzing and characterizing the colonial situation is to suggest the imperative of action to terminate the colonial situation and the network of social relations it has given rise to. This position implies a rejection of the fact/value dichotomy; indeed the assumption is that what constitutes a “fact” in this respect is value-ladden.
