At last month’s Frankfurt Book Fair, a flyer advertising a major publication on Black Africa used the image of a completely veiled head and face, with only a small opening for the eyes and the immediate area around them. I was astonished at the choice of such an image as a symbol for Black Africa…
The attached document is a commentary on the remarkable life story of Bunker Roy, a remarkable Indian social activist and sustainable development expert. A scion of an upper-class Indian family, who had an elitist education, Roy decided to “give something back” to the community when he graduated from university. He decided to spend five years, as an unskilled labourer, digging water wells for rural communities in the state of Rajasthan..
History can enliven us with hope, reminding us that today’s seemingly insurmountable problems can be beaten if only we play our various parts to bring about a better world. It is with this in mind that, in the wake of Toronto’s recent spate of gun violence, I reflect on the significance of this day…
The Pan African Solidarity Hague Committee (PASHC), led by the December 12th Movement International Secretariat and the International Association Against Torture, delivered a petition to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), in The Hague, Netherlands on June 18, 2012. The petition demands that they prosecute the US, Britain, France, Italy, Canada and NATO for war crimes and crimes against humanity…
On 22 March 2012, the German parliament will debate a motion to acknowledge its brutal 1904-08 genocide of the Nama and Herero peoples. Germany’s refusal thus far, and its less than even ‘diplomatic’ treatment in 2011 of the Namibian delegation at the first-ever return of the mortal remains of genocide victims, demands a reassessment of suppressed colonial histories and racism…
CONTENTSâ— The 50th Anniversary of Fanon: Culture, Consciousness and Praxis, Kurt B. Young/Part 1: Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives: â— Frantz Fanon: Existentialist, Dialectician, and Revolutionary, LaRose T. Parris/ Revisiting Fanon, From Theory to Practice: Democracy and Development in Africa, Guy Martin/â— Hegel and Fanon on the Question of Mutual Recognition: A Comparative Analysis, Charles Villet/Part II Fanon as Praxis â— Fanon Now: Singularity and Solidarity, Anthony C. Alessandrini/â— Reading Violence and Postcolonial Decolonization Through Fanon: The Case of Jamaica, Maziki Thame/â— Freedom and Development in Historical Context: A Comparison of Gandhi and Fanon’s Approaches to Liberation, Neil Howard/Part III: Literary Reflections on Fanonâ— Remembering the Wretched: Narratives of Return as a Practice of Freedom,Andrea Queeley/â— Fanon as Reader of African American Folklore, Paulette Richards/â— Meditations on Fanon: A Review Essay on John Edgar Wideman’s Fanon: A Novel, Ricky Hill/Part IV Fanon and African Unity, â— Untrapping the Soul of Fanon: Culture, Consciousness and the Future of Pan-Africanism
Kurt B. Young
