Frantz Fanon and the Test of Time

While the shadow cast over incitation to violence has long weighed on the perception of Fanon’s writings, a critical and all-encompassing re-reading of his thinking is called for today. Several recent books published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the author’s death and Algeria’s independence invite us so to do. Frantz Fanon, who was born in 1925, came from a fairly well-off family and grew up in Fort-de-France, on the island of Martinique, at that time conspicuously marked by rural p

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