In 2000 the Socialist Party, which had held power since independence in 1960, was defeated in a peaceful, democratic election. How was it possible for someone to write with such sheering, disarming insight about postcolonial power and failure in 1961? During those weeks I was witness to something else in Dakar. In my slightly fevered reading of Fanon, I would find myself flipping to the first pages of the book to check the date of publication. With astonishing, even prophetic foresight, he spoke of the national bourgeoisie, that avid and voracious class who would turn national liberation into a curse and a burden. Fanon described the failures of liberation and decolonisation he described the degeneration of the leaders of the struggle for independence, a group he labelled a caste of profiteers, who took control of the new states. Reading Fanon in my small study at the university, with the overhead fan slicing into the thick, humid air, was a revelation. For much of the continent, the dreams of African unity and socialism had crashed on the rocks of national liberation. The promises of independence forty years before, which had briefly offered the continent the prospects of real freedom, development and an escape from poverty, had been cruelly lost. The students I taught studied hard, but knew they would struggle to find work after graduation. The university, like the country, seemed to be in an advanced state of collapse. I was working at the country’s main university, named after historian Cheikh Anta Diop. Interviews: Pierre Chaulet, Nigel Gibson and David Macey Knowing Fanon: Pierre Chaulet Studying Fanon: Nigel Gibson Writing the biography: David Macey Unpicking Fanon’s legacy: Lessons and possibilities: Leo Zeilig Fanon’s revolutionary culture and nationalism: Hamza Hamouchene Select BibliographyĪCKNOWLEDGEMENTS I read Frantz Fanon’s final, greatest book The Wretched of the Earth, when I was living in Dakar in Senegal. PART 3: REFLECTIONS ON FANON AND HIS LEGACY PART 2: HIS VOICE Black Skin, White Masks From Chapter 7: The Negro and Recognition From Chapter 8: By Way of Conclusion Studies in a Dying Colonialism Chapter 1: Algeria Unveiled Chapter 3: The Algerian Family The Wretched of the Earth Chapter 1: Concerning Violence Chapter 3: The Pitfalls of National Consciousness Chapter 6: Conclusion Toward the African Revolution From Section I: The Problem of the Colonised From Section III: For Algeria From Section IV: Toward the Liberation of Africa From Section V: African Unity PART 1: HIS LIFE Why revisit Fanon? Inside Martinique: Racism, war and France Black Skin, White Masks Learning radical psychiatry: Saint Alban Algeria: Resistance and repression The Front de Libération Nationale, activism and psychiatry Exile in Tunisia – through France Year Five of the Algerian Revolution The Wretched of the Earth Endgame ‘Sans la reconnaissance de la valeur humaine de la folie, c’est l’homme même qui disparaît’ FRANÇOIS TOSQUELLES, L’ENSEIGNEMENT DE LA FOLIE (1992) ‘Without the recognition of the human value of madness, it is man himself who disappears.’ (THESE WORDS WERE THE PSYCHIATRIC PRINCIPLE THAT GUIDED FANON’S WORK.)ĬONTENTS Acknowledgements Acronyms The life of Frantz Fanon Foreword by Mireille Fanon-Mendès-France Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data is available.ĭedicated to Pierre Chaulet and David Macey Copyedited by Peter Lague Typeset by Nicole de Swardt Cover design by Nicole de Swardt and Georgia Demertzis Cover photo by Archives Frantz Fanon/IMEC Trade distribution: In the US, Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, In Canada, Publishers Group Canada, In the UK, Turnaround Publisher Services, All other countries, Publishers Group Worldwide, This book was published with the generous support of Lannan Foundation and Wallace Action Fund. Images supplied by Archives Frantz Fanon/IMEC and Leo Zeilig. Extracts from Studies in a Dying Colonialism and Studies in a Dying Colonialism reproduced with permission from Monthly Review Press. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Used by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Excerpts from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon, English translation copyright © 1963 by Présence Africaine. Box 180165 Chicago, IL 60618 77 ISBN: 978-1-60846-164-6 Extracts from Black Skins, white masks reproduced with permission from © Éditions du Seuil, 1952. This edition published in 2016 by Haymarket Books P.O. © 2014 Human Sciences Research Council First published 2014 as part of a series of titles named Voices of Liberation. Frantz Fanon COMPILED BY LEO ZEILIG FOREWORD BY MIREILLE FANON-MENDÈSFRANCE
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