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The concept of Africa is an invention.
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The quote challenges the idea that “Africa” is a simple, natural category with one fixed meaning. Calling it an “invention” suggests that the concept was created or shaped by people rather than existing as an unquestionable idea. It does not necessarily deny the reality of the land or its people; it questions how they are grouped and described.
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- The Frantz Fanon Blog, reproducing a 1998 interview published in *Encounter Images in the Meeting Between Africa and Europe*
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