Tag Archives: Frantz Fanon

Forward to emancipation-from-below in the Caribbean

September 28, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Network for Pan-Afrikan Solidarity Today we gather to commemorate the 50th anniversaries of Jamaica’s and Trinidad and Tobago’s independence. In our commemorations of the work of countless revolutionary ancestors whose active resistance to the British colonial regime led to national … read more »

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Thoughts for independent Algeria’s 50th birthday

July 5, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

David Porter 5 July 2012 marks Algeria’s 50th anniversary of national independence from 132 years of the French colonial regime. At the heavy price of a bitter eight-year armed struggle, marked by 300,000-1,000,000 Algerian deaths, large-scale repression, torture and military … read more »

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‘This is Africa to come’

January 27, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

‘The Mozambique food riots of 2010 and the recent mass protests in Nigeria show that people are capable of forcing governments to back down from enforcing policies that have a negative impact on their lives. Frantz Fanon once wrote that … read more »

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Corruption in the independent African state

January 19, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

‘When a colonised state gains its independence, its troubles are not over. They are just beginning.’ For those of us who were fortunate enough to be born in the colonial times, to be eye witnesses to the struggle to remove … read more »

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Fanon, Guevara, Mandela and Malema

December 11, 2011 by IndepthAfrica

Stef Terblanche, Black Business Quarterly As the year draws to a close we enter a period of celebration, peace and goodwill. Across Africa millions will be commemorating the birth of Christ this month. A short while later the New Year … read more »

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Living Fanon: The rationality of revolt

December 7, 2011 by IndepthAfrica

What better way to celebrate, commemorate and critically reflect on the fiftieth year of Fanon’s ‘The Wretched of the Earth’[1] than with a new North African syndrome: revolution – or at least a series of revolts and resistance across the … read more »

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Frantz Fanon Fifty Year Years Later

December 7, 2011 by IndepthAfrica

by Richard Pithouse, South African Civil Society Information Service Some days ago we saw a sunset that turned the robe of heaven a bright violet. Today it is a very hard red that the eye encounters.    – Frantz Fanon, … read more »

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