" For culture is the first expression of a nation, the expression of its preferences, of its taboos and of its patterns. It is at every stage of the whole of society that other taboos, values and patterns are formed. A national culture is the sum total of all these appraisals; it is the result of internal and external tensions exerted over society as a whole and also at every level of that society. In the colonial situation, culture, which is doubly deprived of the nation and the state, falls away and dies. The condition for its (culture's) existence is therefore national liberation and the renaissance of the state. "

― Frantz Fanon , The Wretched of the Earth