Fanon Shorts
Description: Frantz Fanon was an important internationalist thinker and activist in the struggle for independence in Algeria. His book "The Wretched of the Earth" from which this quote comes, is as important and relevant for anti colonial/ anti neo-colonial activists today in the as when it was written. This quote which looks at the psychology of revolt and revolution when being oppressed becomes unbearable. it is also significant in its echos of the oppression inflicted on George Floyd and other victims of Police brutality. This is a suitable gift or statement for activists fighting oppression everywhere. A meaningful present for the activist in your life.
Description: Frantz Fanon, the Martinican-born psychiatrist and philosopher whose writings on decolonization, Black consciousness, and the psychology of the colonized shaped liberation movements from Algeria to Palestine to South Africa. This portrait surrounds him with Pan-African gold and the Algerian flag — a tribute to the FLN cause he gave his life to. The line printed beneath captures Fanon's enduring warning from The Wretched of the Earth: that the post-colonial bourgeoisie tends to inherit the colonial structure rather than dismantle it. A diagnosis that still reads like prophecy. Wear it to class. Wear it to the protest. Wear it on May 25th (African Liberation Day), during Black History Month, on Juneteenth. Pairs with our Sankara, Nkrumah
Description: The Wretched of the Earth (French: Les Damnés de la Terre) is a 1961 book by the philosopher Frantz Fanon, in which the author provides a psychoanalysis of the dehumanizing effects of colonization upon the individual and the nation, and discusses the broader social, cultural, and political implications of establishing a social movement for the decolonisation of a person and of a people.
Description: This striking portrait of Frantz Fanon honors one of the most influential Pan-African thinkers and anti-colonial revolutionaries in Black history. Known for The Wretched of the Earth and his powerful critique of colonialism, Fanon remains a global symbol of African liberation, Black consciousness, and decolonial thought.
