The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder. — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder. — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder. — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder. — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder. — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
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The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder.

— Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
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