Frantz Fanon

S’bu Zikode’s Presentation at the Fanon Colloquium, Rhodes University, July 9, 2011

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http://thinkingafricarhodesuniversity.blogspot.com/2011/08/sbu-zikodes-presentation-at-fanon.html

S’bu Zikode’s Presentation at the Fanon Colloquium, Rhodes University, July 9, 2011
(rough transcription)

The idea that shack dwellers can think and that Abahlali can sustain its autonomy has created a crisis. There is a price to be paid for such thinking, for such autonomy.

The university is slowly opening spaces for grassroots organizations and some of us have fought hard for a relationship of equality between grassroots organizations and the university. We appreciate that Nigel Gibson has brought Fanon into conversation with us, with our struggle and our thinking. The conversation has been very rich and also difficult. We speak of Fanon from our own working environment. What hasn’t been covered in these 4 days is that Fanon was an activist, committed to daily work with people, talking with people.

Why We Continue to Struggle Rather than Celebrating Freedom on Mandela Day

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17 July 2011

Revolutionary radicals recalcitrant in their reflective refusal to revere “freedom days” are dubbed as reactionaries by our “democratic state”.

by Reverend Mavuso Mbhekeseni, Rural Network

The South African calendar is full of days on which we are asked to celebrate our freedom. There is Human Rights Day, Freedom Day, Worker's Day, Youth Day, Mandela Day, Women's Day and Heritage Day. These days are turned to months. Those of us who refuse to celebrate these days and months as if the struggle is over and who insist that the struggle goes on are called reactionaries.

UFrantz Fanon waziwa kakhulu njengomunye wezinculabuchopho zomzabalazo wenkululeko eAfrika.

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UFrantz Fanon waziwa kakhulu njengomunye wezinculabuchopho zomzabalazo wenkululeko eAfrika.


Frantz Fanon: 1925 – 1961

Wazalelwa esiqhingini sase Martinique ngo 1925. I Martinique yayibuswa ngaphansi kwengcindezelo yombuso waseFrance. Abantu abahlala khona kwakungabokudabuka eMartinique, kanye nabase Afrika ababelethwe ngaphansi kohlelo lokuthumba abantu base Afrika benziwe izigqila kanye nabokudabuka eNdiya ababelethelwe ukuzotshala umoba eMartinique ukuze uthunyelwe eFrance.

Fanonian Practices and the politics of space in postapartheid South Africa: The Challenge of the Shack Dwellers Movement

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Click here to read an annotated version of this essay in word and here to read it in pdf.

Bu makaleyi Türkçe okumak için buraya tiklayin.

Fanonian Practices and the politics of space in postapartheid South Africa: The Challenge of the Shack Dwellers Movement (Abahlali baseMjondolo)
Presentation at the Frantz Fanon Colloque, Algiers July 7, 2009

Was ist me dem versprochenen land passiert? Post-apartheid Sud Afrika aus der Perspektive Frantz Fanons

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Was ist me dem versprochenen land passiert? Post-apartheid Sud Afrika aus der Perspektive Frantz Fanons

Nigel Gibson

Spatial reorganisation, decentralisation and dignity: Applying a Fanonian lens to a Grahamstown shack settlement

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Spatial reorganisation, decentralisation and dignity: Applying a Fanonian lens to a Grahamstown shack settlement

This paper intends to show how the experiences of residents in eThembeni, a shack settlement in Grahamstown, resonate with Fanon’s discussion of a failing post-colony. Further, this paper discusses how attempts by eThembeni’s residents, and other shackdwellers across the country, to reorganise their space are underscored by calls for dignity. Those whose humanness has been denied are appealing to a humanist consciousness that the post-colonial nationalist party failed to develop. For Fanon, practises and ideas of becoming human are essential to any successful decolonisation (Gibson, 2011). Considering this, the calls and demands of the spatially damned of South Africa could represent a move towards a true decolonisation.

Thinking Fanon: Fanonian Translations in and outside the academy

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A presentation by Nigel Gibson (author of Fanonian Practices in South Africa) hosted by the Centre for Contemporary Thought and the African Studies Workshop at the University of Chicago, February 21, 2012

WISER Seminar: Thought Amidst Waste

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Thought Amidst Waste
Conjunctural Notes on the Democratic Project in South Africa

Paper for the Wits Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities, WISER, University of the Witwatersrand, 28 May 2012

by Richard Pithouse, Department of Politics & International Relations, Rhodes University, Grahamstown

the existence of suffering human beings, who think, and thinking human beings, who are oppressed, must inevitably become unpalatable and indigestible to the animal world of philistinism.
-Karl Marx, Cologne, 1843

In a recent essay Achille Mbembe argues that the rendering of human beings as waste by the interface of racism and capitalism in South Africa means that “for the democratic project to have any future at all, it should necessarily take the form of a conscious attempt to retrieve life and 'the human' from a history of waste”. He adds that “the concepts of 'the human', or of 'humanism', inherited from the West will not suffice. We will have to take seriously the anthropological embeddedness of such terms in long histories of "the human" as waste.”

Fanon en Afrique du Sud : une autre « géographie de la raison » (recension et "bonnes feuilles")

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http://www.contretemps.eu/fr/lectures/fanon-en-afrique-sud-autre-%C2%AB-g%C3%A9ographie-raison-%C2%BB-recension-bonnes-feuilles

Fanon en Afrique du Sud : une autre « géographie de la raison » (recension et "bonnes feuilles")

Matthieu Renault, Contretemps

Pratiques fanoniennes en Afrique du Sud, le titre du dernier ouvrage de Nigel Gibson, figure clé des Fanon studies anglophones 1, témoigne à lui seul de la fécondité (internationale) de l’œuvre du psychiatre et théoricien des décolonisations Frantz Fanon depuis sa mort le 5 décembre 1961. Cette fécondité, elle nous a trop longtemps été masquée par l’oubli 2 dans lequel le même Fanon a été plongé en France. Certes, nous ne sommes plus à présent sans connaître le rôle capital qu’ont pu jouer ses écrits dans la fondation des postcolonial studies anglo-américaines, mais l’on ignore encore trop souvent les multiples appropriations théoriques et pratiques dont ils ont pu faire l’objet hors de l’ « Euro-Amérique » : en Amérique latine, en Afrique, en Asie. Che Guevara s’avérait ainsi être un lecteur averti de Fanon — l’on retrouve encore dans sa bibliothèque personnelle à La Havane un exemplaire annoté de Pour la révolution africaine. L’on songera également à Paolo Freire, auteur brésilien de la Pédagogie des opprimés; à Amilcar Cabral, fondateur du Parti Africain pour l’Indépendance de la Guinée et du Cap-Vert, théoricien de la révolution africaine dont les thèses sur la culture nationale ne peuvent manquer d’évoquer celles de Fanon; à Ali Shariati 3, grande figure de l’islam réformiste, idéologue (selon ses mots) de la révolution iranienne et qui fut profondément marqué par sa rencontre avec Fanon. Cette liste est évidemment très loin d’être exhaustive, mais elle fait déjà comprendre tout l’intérêt qu’il y aurait à retracer rigoureusement tous ces déplacements de la pensée de Fanon. Ce serait là à n’en pas douter une contribution importante à une étude des circulations « sud-sud » des idées qui s’inscrirait elle-même dans la perspective d’une géographie des savoirs en rupture avec la thèse de la suprématie épistémique de l’Europe conçue comme lieu (à la fois origine et centre) par excellence de production de connaissance.

¨I dannati¨ di Fanon e la razionalita della revolta

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¨I dannati¨ di Fanon e la razionalita della revolta

Nigel Gibson, Aut Aut

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