Fanon argued independence came at the price of honoring the colonizer’s ‘rights’

Evidence

While the West held up both its economic system and its ‘humanist superiority’ for emulation, Fanon urged the people of the colonies to find their own distinctive paths. Upholding a ‘new humanism’, he argued that, if the people of former colonies were to create new political and human possibilities for themselves, they had to stop honouring the ‘notorious “rights” of the occupant’ whose guarantee had been presented as the price for independence. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 288

Categorization

• XREF: Fanon’s ‘new humanism’ and rejection of the occupant’s rights resonates with the reader’s theme of rights discourse serving market liberalism.