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Saturday, 16 April 2016

Frantz Fanon: A democratic philosopher

Richard Pithouse, Mail & Guardian

If there’s a philosopher of the moment it is, by some distance, Frantz Fanon. This is not surprising given that Fanon offers compelling accounts of the pathologies of both the colony and the postcolony – spaces that some of the young people at the fore of the new ferment in South Africa feel they must inhabit simultaneously.