.. a process of dismantling the colonial empire without having to choose between French colonialism and national independence. Its project was a postcolonial imagined community that lay beyond the nation-state in a federal entity..
In the light of 60’s optimism Sartre had seen the destiny of the colonised, in effect the parents of the mufflered faces who walk by, as the bearers of a new Modernity which the European tainted by colonial inheritance could never envisage.
… the undocumented created an architecture of a shadow society whose political form is unaddressed. It is described by words like Township, Settlement, Slum, but again like camp, each of those words presents us with shortcomings.
