The Colonizer’s Lineup: France Plays Africa and Has the Nerve to Lecture Morocco

Marrakech Aimé Césaire, the Martinican poet-revolutionary who dissected the rotting carcass of the French colonial project with surgical eloquence, once declared that colonization works “to decivilize the colonizer, to brutalize him in the true sense of the word, to degrade him, to awaken him to buried instincts, to covetousness, violence, race hatred, and moral relativism.” He wrote those words in 1950.