Homage
to Frantz Fanon
Aimé
Césaire
Frantz
Fanon is dead. We expected this for many months, but against all reason,
we
were hopeful. We knew him as such a determined person, capable of
miracles,
and as such a crucial figure on the horizon of men. We must accept
the
facts: Frantz Fanon is dead at age 37. A short life, but extraordinary. Brief,
but
bright, illuminating one of the most atrocious tragedies of the 20th century
and
detailing in an exemplary manner the human condition, the condition of
modern
man. If the word “commitment” has a meaning, then it is embodied in
the
person of Frantz Fanon. He was called “an advocate of violence, a terrorist.”
And
it’s true Fanon appointed himself the theoretician of violence, the sole
weapon
of the colonized against the barbarism of colonialism.