Reimagining the Colonial Condition: Understanding Unhappiness in Context to the Colonial Wound

Abstract Fanon wrote that colonialism infantilises the colonised as children of an un/loving colonial m/other. He explained that control and management of the colonised determined the success of colonisation thereby producing the conditions for unhappiness. This is a seminal point for the connection between colonialism and psychopathy, framing it as the colonial wound. I explore this connection through the ways in which uhuru, ubuntu and ujamaa are strategic forms of resistance to internalised oppression and are presented as an exit from the colonial condition, offering possibilities for new ways of being and new imaginaries that promote decolonial love. Consequently, I argue that uhuru, ubuntu and ujamaa are equally necessary and significant for justice and healing.