The influence of revolutionary Frantz Fanon endures with Africa’s intellectuals — Quartz

In this last public appearance, he read to the assembled troops, many of them illiterate, from his draft of what would become the most famous chapter in “ Wretched of the Earth ”, about the pitfalls of national consciousness.

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He described how the national bourgeoisie, after independence, is only too happy to accept what crumbs the departing colonial powers throw to it. Without social reform, without political and economic transformation, he warned, national liberation would be an empty shell.

The Meandering Paths of Segun Akinlolu

[The Meandering Paths of Segun Akinlolu] is good,have a look at it!

There will be no justice for the millions of hapless Africans

Shackled and tortured, irreversibly damaged,

Silenced and murdered, on the slave routes,

The harrowing pain and abuse suffered by those who made it over

Continues to haunt their children and extended offspring

And yes, lest we forget, insignificant Eric was one of them.

Who will cry for you now? Who will get your due?

A million online campaigns will not,

And CNN already closed your chapter in a brief, symbolic, staged debate

You are small fry, though,

In a world of inequity, controlled by the rich and the powerful few,

The owners of endlessly networked corporations,

The ones who make a profit from each conflict,

Who sell the guns and the bandages; train the doctors and the snipers,

Fund groundbreaking research and create new diseases

New vaccines and cures which must be sold, be sold, be sold

The shadowy men who hide under the guise of philanthropy

To inflict pain, disease and death on others,

The tech barons who support the development

Of agro-seeds that do not re-grow

Who, with their celebrity friends, love Africa more than the Africans

And who, one day, we will celebrate as saviours

Due to our communal blindness, greed and selfishness

Oh, and let us not forget their agents –

Homegrown collaborators and gene-bearing returnees,

Set upon the land like locusts at harvest

You, who rape your mother at night and massage her wounds in daylight

You will get away with it; it’s written in the books.

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