Who was Frantz Fanon?

Speaker: Talat Ahmed

Frantz Fanon and the Problems of Independence (1963)

Nguyen Nghe Translators’ Introduction It often appears as if everything that can possibly be said on the life and work of Frantz Fanon has already been written. The core texts of his oeuvre have not only become cornerstones of curricula in postcolonial studies, black studies, and political theory departments; they have also been taken up…

Fanon: The Pitfalls of Nationalist Consciousness

Frantz Fanon, 1961 The Wretched of the Earth Source: Les damnés de la terre by François Maspéro éditeur in 1961; First published: in Great Britain by Macgibbon and Kee in 1965; Transcribed: by Dominic Tweedie. History teaches us clearly that the battle against colonialism does not run straight away along the lines of nationalism. For…

Resistance and Revolution: Fanon’s Legacy

Nigel C Gibson The damnation of the world’s majority that Frantz Fanon spoke about did not end with the withdrawal of formal colonial rule. It continues in the razor wire transit camps, detention zones, rural pauperisation and in shanty towns, writes Nigel C Gibson. When I was asked by Dr. Keithley Woolward to address the…