Both the old paternalist and the coercive forms of colonial Algeria were dying.

Evidence

General de Gaulle, addressing himself to Algeria’s extremists recently, declared that “Papa’s Algeria is dead.” That is quite true. But it is not the whole truth. Big Brother’s Algeria is dead too. There is a new Algeria, an Algerian nation, an Algerian government. These obvious facts will sooner or later have to be recognized. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 117

Categorization

  • QUESTION: What does ‘Big Brother’s Algeria’ refer to — the military-dominated settler state — and how does Fanon distinguish it from de Gaulle’s ‘Papa’s Algeria’?
  • XREF: connects to: Pied noir settlers related to Algerians through indifference and paternalism

Broader Connections