The status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent.
1961 Preface to Franz Fanon Les Damne s de la terre (The Wretched of the Earth,1967, translated by Constance Farrington). Tsitsi Dangarembga uses this sentence to supply both epigraph and title of her1988 novel Nervous Conditions.
