Colonialism is written into history by the colonizer not as the history of the country which he plunders but as the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves.


Colonialism is complete when the native admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.


In the 1850s, a British explorer called Somalis 'superstitious' for thinking that mosquitoes carried malaria. Then, in 1897, a British officer was credited for 'discovering' that mosquitoes carried malaria.
Honey bees aren't native to North America. They were brought by the colonists. The so-called "white man's fly" spread out faster than the white man himself and came to indicate the approach of European settlers.
Colonialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country, but only the natural resources, which it extracts, and exports to meet the needs of the mother country's industries, leaving the rest of the colony to follow its path of under-development and poverty.

Colonialism is a system beneficial for African nations, and what's more, it was beneficial on account of race and race differences between the colonizers and the colonized.

Colonialism is an institution which is not a thinking machine nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and will only yield when confronted with greater violence. Only 'absolute violence' which didn't distinguish civilians could get the colonizers' attention.
Colonialism is not hegemonic, all-encompassing and all-powerful, but rather, uneven, imperfect, and even indifferent knowledge-acquiring machines.