The two great men have one more thing in common: they both admired and were hugely influenced by the Algerian revolution of the 1950s. Mandela’s birthday, which is celebrated globally, falls on 18 July. Quotes from Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth that resonate 60 years laterĪs fate would have it, Franz Fanon and Nelson Mandela, among the best-known proponents of African liberation, were born in the same week in 19, respectively. A book published in 2021 to mark the 60th anniversary of the global classic features his most important quotations, which continue to resonate today. The best-known of these is arguably The Wretched of the Earth, published months after his death in 1961. Revisiting Frantz Fanon: memories and moments of a militant philosopherįanon wrote a number of books and articles. But what he said that day inspired many with its militancy. Frantz Fanon, in full Frantz Omar Fanon, (born July 20, 1925, Fort-de-France, Martiniquedied December 6, 1961, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S. He had already experienced racism as a soldier in the Free French Army, for which he had volunteered and in whose ranks he saw combat. Born in Martinique, then as now a departement of France, Frantz Fanon (l925-61) trained as a psychiatrist in Lyons before taking up a post in colonial Algeria. When Fanon rose to speak, not many knew who he was. 3.99 Rating details 155 ratings 22 reviews. Ghana was then the only African nation to have achieved independence from colonial rule. One of the seminal moments in the anti-colonial struggle and the history of pan-Africanism was the All-African People’s Conference in Ghana in 1958. His views on the sport mirror his damning eloquence against colonial and capitalist exploitation.įanon on soccer: radically anti-capitalist, anti-commercial and anti-bourgeois As a psychiatrist, he even attempted to use soccer as part of therapeutic interventions for patients. What Fanon still teaches us about mental illness in post-colonial societiesįanon played soccer from a young age and it became part of his life. Yet the scholarship goes back much further, and has no shortage of impressive exponents from the global south. Mental illness and post-colonial societiesĭecolonial thinking is often associated with literature from the late 1990s and early 2000s. Fanon and the politics of truth and lying in a colonial society
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