


Fanon, who had learned about cultural regeneration in Algeria, developed the second strand of Césaire' s cultural program in terms of the idea of nationalism. In this realm at least, Third World nationalist movements absorbed the idea of nationalism and digested it in accord with the rhythms and demands of their various histories. They could only be tied to kin and co-believer, not to a republican nationalism whose locus was both anticolonial and populist. The multinational perspective questioned the racist claim that the darker nations could only be primordial, that blood and custom reduced the imagination of certain people.
