Showing posts with label The Pitfalls of National Consciousness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Pitfalls of National Consciousness. Show all posts

Wednesday, 7 December 2011

Frantz Fanon and the global African worker

by Bill Fletcher, Pambazuka

It has been more than 30 years since I last read Frantz Fanon’s ‘The Pitfalls of National Consciousness,’ (hereafter referred to as ‘Pitfalls’) contained in ‘The Wretched of the Earth’. It had been so long, in fact, that when I opened my paperback copy of ‘The Wretched of the Earth’, the pages started to come out. That said, the essay read as if from just yesterday with warnings that it turned out were very prescient, including and ironically, with regard to his beloved Algeria.