Africa: Mwalimu in Our Popular Imagination - the Relevance of Nyerere Today Oct 18, 2009
On 14th October 1999 Mwalimu passed away after battling against chronic leukemia - the decease which killed Frantz Fanon in 1961. The millions of the oppressed people of Africa and the world mourned his loss with profound sadness and a sense of loss, because he is among those people who in words and deeds worked for the empowerment of the powerless. (allAfrica.com)
Colonialism and "Ethnicity" in Afri... Sep 10, 2009
The approaches of Mwakikagile and Suberu would appear perennial to radical thinkers like Frantz Fanon and Walter Rodney. To them, the instruments of ethnicity in modern Africa are the tribal bourgeoisie and the tribal proletariats. (Suite101.com)
Casualties of Waugh May 25, 2009
How many million Africans have starved to death because our masters insisted on reading Frantz Fanon and Willy Brandt or, worse still, on hailing Dame Bob Geldof as a thinker when they should instead have been reading Waugh s Black Mischief. Where is the Waugh of our own day to proclaim what all now know (but few dare admit) about Thatcherism s true nature: a mere manic, squalid, and saber-toothed variant of the same Servile State which it purported to oppose. (The American Conservative)
Colonialism And Imperialism, Africa... May 3, 2009
Forced labor, brutal land excision, torture and taxation were the universal features of colonialism which Frantz Fanon latter described as violence in its natural state. It was through this brutality that African lives were lost in colonial mines, roads, railways and plantations. (Suite101.com)
African Conflicts, the Role of Ethn... Apr 30, 2009
The rest who qualified for leadership in Africa constituted the group which Frantz Fanon calls the benis oui oui or the yes yes men. Grappling with the challenges of Ethnicity. (Suite101.com)
Cherif Guellal, 76; Algerian resistance fighter, diplomat Apr 13, 2009
At the same time, he conducted extensive research into the life of Frantz Fanon, whose polemic "The Wretched of the Earth" advocated violent revolution in colonized Third World states. Cherif Ali Guellal, a doctor's son, was born in Constantine, in eastern Algeria. (Boston Globe)
Final punch line - What philosophers’ last days can tell us about death Apr 4, 2009
Frantz Fanon, the Algerian and Third World hero of anti-colonialism, died at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. in 1961, one of the posher pockets of the poshest nation on the planet. (Missoulian, MT)
