Franz Fanon had predicted the crisis colonization and capitalism will cause to the poorest of the earth.
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The Enduring Relevance of Frantz Fanon - 50 Years After His Death
Fifty years since the untimely death on 6 December 1961 of Frantz Fanon, he continues to have immense relevance in our times. His writings were focused on the dialectics of the colonised and the coloniser during the era of the 1960s. Whilst that era has passed, new forms of colonialism between Africa and the former colonial powers, or Africa and the developed world, now manifest in the 21st century, writes Ama Biney.
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Africa: Frantz Fanon and the Current Multiple Crises
Fahamu, 8 December 2011
Fanon appears more current than ever, writes Mireille Fanon Mendès-France. Thanks to his thought, many people have learnt that the fight for liberty, democracy and human… Read more »
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Africa: Fanon's Enduring Relevance
Fahamu, 8 December 2011
What would Fanon make of 'the myriad socio-economic and political problems facing Africans and people of African descent today,' asks Ama Biney, on the 50th anniversary of his… Read more »
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Africa: Fanon, Coloniality and Emancipation
Fahamu, 8 December 2011
Fifty years after his death, Fanon remains 'the entry point in any project geared to the realisation of substantive emancipation, as opposed to elite-led projects,' writes Eunice… Read more »
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Africa: Remembering Fanon - Setting Afoot a New Humanity
Fahamu, 8 December 2011
Frantz Fanon 'respected us enough to understand that, as with his observation about every generation having to find its mission, to fulfill it or betray it, the responsibility for… Read more »
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Africa: 'Toward the African Revolution' - In the Wake of Frantz Fanon
Fahamu, 8 December 2011
Inspired by the revolutionary insights of Fanon, Aziz Salmone Fall proposes 'pan-Africentrage': A process of acquiring political and historic awareness of the collective autonomy… Read more »
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Africa: The Day I Met Frantz Fanon
Fahamu, 8 December 2011
Writers like Frantz Fanon put pen to paper so that the next generation could understand history and its atrocities, says Fatma Alloo. Read more »
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Africa: Fanon and 'The Fact of Blackness'
Fahamu, 8 December 2011
The Fact of Blackness', the seminal 1952 essay by Frantz Fanon, is still relevant today, argues Chambi Chachage. 'It is relevant simply because Du Bois' problem of colour line has… Read more »
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Africa: Universalism in Action
Fahamu, 8 December 2011
Fifty years on, Fanon remains an extraordinary example of an intellectual willing to commit to a living politics waged with and not for the damned of this earth,' writes Richard… Read more »
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Africa: Caribbean Fanonism Revisited - A Note
Fahamu, 8 December 2011
The greatest value of the Fanonist thesis, writes Norman Girvan, might lie in its analysis of the 'psychology of liberation' at personal level. But the thesis cannot be used as the… Read more »
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Africa: Frantz Fanon - My Hope and Hero
Fahamu, 8 December 2011
Not just a brilliant analysis of colonialism and the process of decolonisation, Fanon's 'The Wretched of the Earth' is 'the heart and soul of a movement' written by 'one who fully… Read more »
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Africa: Frantz Fanon in Africa and Asia
Fahamu, 8 December 2011
Frantz Fanon is a loved and respected figure all over Africa and Asia. Samir Amin argues that his writing and the choice to join the liberation struggle in Algeria show Fanon was a… Read more »
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Africa: Frantz Fanon, Globalisation and the African Revolution
Fahamu, 8 December 2011
The need to revisit Fanon's work has 'never been greater', argues Helmi Sharawi, in an analysis of its relevance to 'the process of globalisation' in contemporary Africa. Read more »
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Africa: Frantz Fanon - Prophet of African Liberation
Fahamu, 8 December 2011
Frantz Fanon played a key role in 'legitimising violent struggle' among 'African liberation movements', writes Cameron Duodu, in an exploration of Fanon's relationship with… Read more »
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Africa: Fanon and 'The Wretched of the Earth' - A Political-Pedagogical Force
Fahamu, 8 December 2011
'In the fifty years since Fanon's passing to the other side and since the first publication of The Wretched of the Earth, both continue to live on, challenging us to not give up,… Read more »
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Africa: Frantz Fanon and the Global African Worker
Fahamu, 8 December 2011
Workers should be 'centrally involved in leading the national democratic/revolutionary process' rather than joining labour unions 'subordinated' to a national liberation party or… Read more »
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Africa: Living Fanon - The Rationality of Revolt
Fahamu, 8 December 2011
In the context of revolutions in North Africa, Nigel C. Gibson reflects on Frantz Fanon's interpretations of postcolonial politics. Read more »
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Africa: The Ghost of Frantz Fanon
Fahamu, 8 December 2011
Frantz Fanon's legacy remains with us as a challenge that another world is possible, writes David Austin. Read more »
