Frantz Fanon on His Centenary

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Around the academic world the name Frantz Fanon is increasingly popular. Few spaces in the field of social and human sciences are where it is not evoked in a positive way. Fanon, born on the island of Martinique a century ago and dead at just 36 years in 1961, embodies a universalizable discussion based on a historic condition that is lacerating to most of the peoples of the globe: the legacies of colonialism and its perverse effects.

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Mireille Fanon-Mendès-France recalled some fundamentals during the Platform of the Peoples of Europe, mid-February in Vienna, inspired by the work led by her father, Frantz Fanon, a major figure of anti-colonialism. Abandoning statistics and maps to focus on the founding paradigms of our world, she perceives the international violence of our time as the continuation of a long racist history of colonial conquests. Article Racism: Since the first …