Opinion
Ace and the gang are precisely the people Fanon warned us about
Decolonisation's leading thinker called it: a new elite adopts nationalist and racist language to try to keep the masses onside. But Fanon gives hope, too
04 August 2019 - 00:06
Frantz Fanon, who was born on the Caribbean island of Martinique, studied in France and then joined the struggle for the liberation of Algeria from French colonialism. Today he is widely considered to be the most significant thinker to have arisen from the decolonisation movement in Africa. The greatest living African intellectuals, usually considered to be the Ugandan Mahmood Mamdani, and the Johannesburg-based Cameroonian Achille Mbembe, still base much of their work on Fanon's original insights...
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