Note there is an error here: “In keeping with the patriarchal norms of colonial and Caribbean life, Suzanne’s own ambitions came second to AimĆ©’s, who eventually became the first president of Senegal.” AimĆ© CĆ©saire was never a president of any country. I have emailed the editors to rectify it. Uncensoring the subconscious
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51