Tag Archives: Wretched of the Earth

Roadmap for ending Somalia transition: An obvious fool’s errand

May 25, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

“These regimes based on the family unit seem to repeat the age-old laws of endogamy and faced with this stupidity, this imposture and this intellectual and spiritual poverty, we are left with a feeling of shame rather than anger. These … 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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