Frantz Fanon

National consciousness is nothing but a crude, empty fragile shell. The cracks in it explain how easy it is for young independent countries to switch back from nation to ethnic group and from state to tribe —a regression which is so terribly detrimental and prejudicial to the development of the nation and national unity.”22

—“Let us endeavour to invent a man in full, something which Europe has been incapable of achieving”27

becomes clear that what divides this world is first and foremost what species, what race one belongs to.