Thursday, 23 March 2023
Nigel C Gibson’s most recent book, Fanon: Psychiatry and Politics, co-authored with Roberto Beneduce, is published by Wits University Press.
The eKhenana occupation in Cato Manor, Durban, is a significant site in the struggle for a South Africa that respects the humanity of all.
Many struggles today find resonance with the words of Frantz Fanon because he wrote so searchingly and presciently about the wounds of the colonised, and the road to freedom.
The Wretched of the Earth was the pan-African thinker’s last book, published in 1961. A collection of quotes from the book marks the anniversary.
Fanon’s idea that the measure of time not be that of the moment but that of the rest of the world takes on urgent significance as climate extinction meets global pandemic.
The revolt against police brutality after George Floyd’s death evokes Frantz Fanon’s ‘combat breathing’ and the notion that life cannot be conceived without struggle for a new social consciousness.
In April 1917, Lenin underscored the revolutionary role of the masses, insisting that the workers and peasants were vastly more revolutionary than the Marxists in the Bolshevik party.
Nigel Gibson returns to philosopher and writer Raya Dunayevskaya’s book and is inspired anew by her challenge to activists to think beyond activism, and by Marx’s humanism.
Ghanaian philosopher Ato Sekyi-Otu’s new book argues for a radical universalism that rooted in African thought and experience that finds human freedom in the socialised individual.
In the vortex of the Algerian revolution Fanon’s return to ‘the Marxist formula’ was rooted in the concrete situation of a living struggle.