The Church In The Colonies Is The

The Misfortune Of The Man Of Color Is Having Been Enslaved. The Misfortune And Inhumanity Of The White Man Are Having Killed Man Somewhere.

No Attempt Must Be Made To Encase Man, For It Is His Destiny To Be Set Free.

Taking The Continent As A Whole, This Religious Tension May Be Responsible For The Revival Of The Commonest Racial Feeling. Africa Is Divided Into Black And White, And The Names That Are Substituted- Africa South Of The Sahara, Africa North Of The Sahara- Do Not Manage To Hide This Latent Racism. Here, It Is Affirmed That White Africa Has A Thousand-year-old Tradition Of Culture; That She Is Mediterranean, That She Is A Continuation Of Europe And That She Shares In Graeco-latin Civilization. Black Africa Is Looked On As A Region That Is Inert, Brutal, Uncivilized - In A Word, Savage.

National Liberation, National Renaissance, The Restoration Of Nationhood To The People, Commonwealth: Whatever May Be The Headings Used Or The New Formulas Introduced, Decolonization Is Always A Violent Phenomenon.

The Negro Enslaved By His Inferiority, The White Man Enslaved By His Superiority Alike Behave In Accordance With A Neurotic Orientation.