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Frantz Fanon and the African Revolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

G. K. Grohs
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The theory of the African revolution, which is still in many respects only in its initial stage, found a most powerful inspiration in the West Indian psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon. His writings were at first confined to the French-speaking public, and even after their initial translation into English (published by Présence africaine) they remained almost unknown. But the growing race tensions in Africa and the United States are drawing more and more attention to this original thinker.

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Review Article
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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , December 1968 , pp. 543 - 556
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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Page 543 note 1 In this article, the English translation by Markmann, Charles, Black Skin, White Masks (New York, 1967), will be quoted.Google Scholar

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Page 550 note 1 The Wretched of the Earth, p. 51.

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Page 551 note 2 Ibid. p. 13.

Page 552 note 1 The Wretched of the Earth, pp. 132 and 133–4.

Page 552 note 2 Ibid. p. 149.

Page 553 note 1 Stokely Carmichael expressed similar hopes, that the white American workers would join forces with Afro-Americans, in a talk to university students in Dar es Salaam, 1967. On the influence of Fanon on the Black Power movement generally, cf. Edmondson, Locksley, ‘“Black Power” Africa and the Caribbean’ (Makerere University College, Kampala, 1968, mimeo).Google Scholar

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Page 555 note 1 This problem has been discussed in many speeches by responsible African politicians, including Léopold Senghor, Sékou Touré, and Julius Nyerere.

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