The Colonizer and the Colonized - Albert Memmi Crime addictive and deceptively erudite read'

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The Colonizer and the Colonized - Albert Memmi Crime addictive and deceptively erudite read'Written in 1957, when North African independence movements were gaining momentum, The Colonizer and the Colonized studies the enduring legacy, political as much as psychological, of colonisation throughout the world. Albert Memmi depicts colonialism as a disease of the European but crucially he demonstrates that colonialism destroys both the colonizer and the colonized, providing penetrating insights into colonial inheritance and resistance that