![]() The country contained a large percentage of European settlers with close ties to France, and virtually every major French political tendency opposed its independence - including the Socialist and Communist Parties. While French and British imperialism were willing to concede political independence to some of their African colonies by the late 1950s, matters were very different in Algeria. The Algerian Fulcrumįanon had good reason to see the Algerian revolution as the fulcrum and vanguard of the wider African revolutions. Its focal point is rather a detailed mediation on the Algerian revolution, in which its author had directly participated since shortly after his arrival in Algiers in 1953. ![]() ![]() Several focused on what Fanon called his “testament”: his pathbreaking evaluation of the African revolutions in The Wretched of the Earth, completed only weeks before his death from leukemia at the age of thirty-six.Īlthough many hailed The Wretched of the Earth at the time of its publication as a “bible of Third World revolution,” the book only makes passing reference to developments in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, and does not attempt to provide an exhaustive analysis of the many African liberation movements that were active at the time. ![]() ![]() The sixtieth anniversary of Frantz Fanon’s death on December 5 last year has prompted a number of reconsiderations of his legacy. ![]()
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