Wretched of the Earth Chapter 5-Conclusion

In chapter 5 and the conclusion of Frantz Fannon’s Wrecthed of the Earth, Fannon emphasizes the rise of trauma from the colonialism and war the people of Africa lived through. It is important to analyze, and deal with people’s traumas rather than just deeming them as crazy and throwing them in Psychiatric Institutions. Comparing this certain situation to today, after slavery was abolished in America, along with the stigma of Black people, came a trauma. It’s called Post-Traumatic slavery syndrome. Just like Black people today need Black therapist, this was also needed in this situation. Frantz Fannon got the chance of unraveling these traumatic experiences with people who encountered this colonialism first hand. This included a survivor of the monstrosity. An Algerian man who now had homicidal thoughts and who’s wife was raped at that time. He even got the chance to talk to many more survivors who suffer from depression and constant suicidal thoughts because of what they went through. I am a big advocate for the awareness of mental health, therefore I love that Fannon takes his time out to sit and talk  with each of these survivors. Overall, I am impressed how this novel ended up tying all together that labeling people crazy because they went through some sort of trauma is not at all patriotic despite the “good” these people probably expressed that they were doing for the people of their nation.