Chapter 3: The Pitfalls of National Consciousness by Frantz Fanon, 1961
… in certain young states of Black Africa members of parliament, or even ministers, maintain without a trace of … grow rich, their wives doll themselves up, the members of parliament feather their nests and there is not a soul down … that the regime becomes harsher. In the absence of a parliament it is the army that becomes the arbiter: but …