Fanon, the undiscovered country

Fanon's grace was his vision. He offered a seemingly incoherent version of his theory regarding the psychology of oppression. For the first time one individual of color articulated the psychopathology of oppression. In fact it may not be too far fetched to say it was the first time someone postulated a theory to explain the conditions of the oppressed beyond social classes and economic/political hierarchies. Until then, theories of human develoment had not bothered with the development of humans under colonialism despite this being the salient feature of the world history during the XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX and much of the XX centuries. Fanon's theory thus may stand in the future as first one to challenge the existing paradigms.