![]() ![]() ![]() The ethical grounding of his social psychiatric theory and therapy is in a moral anthropology, a conception of the human person, in which human freedom, agency and struggle are normative and necessary and indispensable to the health, wholeness, and flourishing of persons and peoples. He wrote extensively on his experience and understanding of colonialism, crystallizing and summing up many of his most important observations and findings in his world-renowned masterpiece, The Wretched of the Earth. In this the month of his coming-into-being, July 20, we are especially reminded of the complex richness and current relevance of Fanon’s thought, but also its contribution, along with other key African activist-intellectuals, to the grounding and development of our philosophy Kawaida.įanon was born in Martinique, did his academic work for his doctorate in psychiatry in France and his professional work in Algeria, joined the Algerian Revolution, served as ambassador to Ghana for the Provisional Revolutionary Government, and traveled throughout Africa representing and building support for the Algerian Revolution and the consolidation of pan-Africanism as a real and revolutionary practice. To have read Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) in the original French or the translated English, especially The Wretched of the Earth, and to grasp and embrace his understanding of armed struggle, decipher and find useful concepts in his discussion of the interrelatedness of national consciousness, culture and struggle, uphold his commitment to the masses and take up his challenge to create a new history of humankind and a new man and woman was for the advocates of Us and other organizations in the Black Liberation Movement of the 60s a central set of criteria for revolutionary consciousness and commitment. ![]()
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