Keynote
address at the Critical Caribbean Symposium Series “50 Years Later:
Frantz Fanon’s Legacy to the Caribbean and the Bahamas,” Friday
December 2nd, The College of the Bahamas
As the
College of The Bahamas continues in their efforts to earn University
status, two instructors at the institution are helping things along
with their new bold symposium that will be internationally attended,
The College of the Bahamas Fanon Symposium 2011: 50 Years Later:
Fanon’s Legacy and the Caribbean/Bahamas, scheduled for December 2.
On
6 December 2011, 50 years will have passed since the death of Frantz
Fanon. Born in 1925 in the French colony of Martinique, Fanon's personal
experiences of everyday life under colonialism would yield two of the
most influential texts in anti-colonial revolutionary thought: Black Skin, White Masks (1952), and The Wretched of the Earth (1961).
Symposium Rationale
Frantz Fanon is today one of the most widely known and
influential Caribbean born theorists and revolutionary activists.