Year: 2024 | Month: October | Volume: 11 | Issue: 10 | Pages: 610-619
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20241057
Frantz Fanon on National Culture and the Quest for Revitalization of African Culture
AKA, AUGUSTINE CHUKWUEMEKA
Ebonyi State University, P.M.B. 053, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria.
ABSTRACT
Africa is one of the continents in the world that is blessed with rich and great cultural heritage which made her to stand out among other continents in the world. Africans' way of life has unique features that no other continent could be compared with it. This is evident in Africa's communalistic way of living which sees the whole to be greater than a part by taking public interest to be greater than private interests, but it is mind-bending that as a result of Africa’s contact with the Europeans, they abandoned their own culture and takes that of the Europeans as superior. This made Fanon to state that the native intellectual who comes back to his people by way of cultural achievements behaves in fact like a foreigner. It is because of this, that this paper examines Frantz Fanon on his view of national culture which according to him comes as a result of the struggle to liberate a nation. When there is national culture, then, there can be African culture. The paper concludes that it is by the revitalization of national culture and recognition of African culture that Africa can now begin to develop rapidly and become culturally relevant.
Keywords: Culture, Education, Development
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