A returning national elite can compel an enforced awakening in its people

Evidence

It is true that independence produces the spiritual and material conditions for the reconversion of man. But it is also the inner mutation, the renewal of the social and family structures that impose with the rigor of a law the emergence of the Nation and the growth of its sovereignty. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 618 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Revolutionary leadership must flow upward from class awareness, not downward.; Inner transformation precedes and drives national sovereignty — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 618

Broader Connections