This collage quality is less evident in Dying Colonialism, which com-prises five parts, each touching on a particular group or phenomenon as related to the Algerian Revolution: women, radio, the family, medicine, and Europeans. A Dying Colonialism is Fanon's incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as "primitive," in order to destroy those oppressors. is Fanon's incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as "primitive," in order to destroy those oppressors. I propose to reconstruct the position of this essentially philosophical work in the trajectory that A Dying Colonialism (French: L'An V de la Révolution Algérienne) is a 1959 book by the psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, in which the author provides an account of the Algerian War.The book details cultural and political changes that emerge due to the rejection of French colonial oppression by the Algerian. Fanon begins A Dying Colonialism with a short preface written in 1959. A Dying Colonialism, a Dying Orientalism: Algeria 1952 . A Dying Colonialism - Frantz Fanon An account of the Algerian war for independence from France, and its cultural effects on the local population including the revival of previously suppressed customs and attitudes. The French colonial forces do not understand this and they continue to fight. The two sides of the conflict are judged according to different standards. A Dying Colonialism, a Dying Orientalism: Algeria 1952 book A Dying Colonialism(1959). However, the thesis of this paper is that A Dying Colonialism is an essential text for understanding Fanon’s philosophy. Frantz Fanon: A Dying Colonialism. A Dying Colonialism is Fanon's incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as "primitive," in order to destroy those oppressors. A dying colonialism by Frantz Fanon, unknown edition, First Sentence "The way people clothe themselves, together with the traditions of dress and finery that custom implies, constitutes the most distinctive form of society's uniqueness, that is to say the one that is … DOI link for A Dying Colonialism, a Dying Orientalism: Algeria 1952. The last of these is a previously published article, but Eric J. Steere. "A Dying Colonialism" is one of the lesser known books by Franz Fanon, the other better known works being "Black Shin, White Masks"-"Peau noir, masques blancs" (1952) and "The Wretched of the Earth" - "les damn?s de la terre (1961)". Frantz Fanon was a Martinique French-Algerian who joined the opposition soon after moving to Algeria and after the conflict began in 1954. A Dying Colonialism. Six years of war have changed Algerian culture and society so much that victory in the revolution is inevitable.