The Wretched of the Earth serves as a guide for decolonization, written through the lens of a psychiatrist and revolutionary thinker from the Caribbean French colony of Martinique who becomes immersed in Algeria’s anti-colonial struggle. Fanon’s treatment for the diagnosis of colonialism, the ‘absolute evil,’ which is instigated and maintained through force, is force itself. As the only language the colonizer understands, violence is inevitable in the liberation process. He makes a distinction between the westernized urban native with the ‘psychology of a businessman’ who lacks revolutionary potential – because he depends on the bourgeoisie of colonial society – and the peasant masses, who are uncorrupted by the colonial system and possess the genuine revolutionary spirit capable of overthrowing it. Fanon also dissects how colonizers drain ‘the colonized brain of any form of substance’, instill the racist perception of inferiority in the native, and systematically obliterate his culture, which is ‘first and foremost the expression of a nation’. He cautions that we should not attempt to catch up with Europe, which he calls ‘a sickening mimicry’ that mutilates man and ‘tears him from himself and his inner consciousness’. Instead, we must be pioneers and innovate a new way of thinking to flip the status quo and start anew.