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
By IMRAAN BUCCUS

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.

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