The Wretched of the Earth

Franz Fanon's work of The Wretched of the Earth is supposed to be fiery and inspirational, yet I believe it's actually just unhelpful. Fanon says that, "Europe undertook the leadership of the world with ardour, cynicism and violence," and has "a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders", justifying "her crimes" and legitimizing "the slavery in which she holds four-fifths of humanity". He even writes that Africans should not try to imitate Europe in any way because, "a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions."

Fanon goes over and over the point that Africans need to go in a new direction, and not follow the European or American way. He declares that they "must turn over a new leaf... work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man," but he offers absolutely no solution to this dilemma. I think it's pointless to just point out a "problem" like this and not give any effort to solve it.