".. colonialism is not simply content to impose its rule upon the present and the future of a dominated country. Colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures and destroys. This work of devaluing pre-colonial history takes on a dialectical significance today."
-Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth