A Dying Colonialism

A Dying Colonialism is a 1959 book by the psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, in which the author gives an account of the Algerian War. The book describes the cultural and political changes that emerged from Algerians' rejection of French colonial oppression.

Issues discussed include the role of women in the liberation struggle, changes to family life, the role of the radio, and language and medicine, both as tools of oppression and complicity and as tools of freedom and liberation. It also considers Algeria's European minority and their possible role as allies in the conflict.

The book was first published in France by Maspero as L'An V de la Révolution Algérienne (Year Five of the Algerian Revolution). It appeared in English in 1965 as Studies in a Dying Colonialism, published by Monthly Review, and in 1967 Grove Press issued a mass-market paperback under the shortened title A Dying Colonialism.