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Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) was one of the key leading figures in the decolonisation movement. Through his participation in the armed resistance against the colonial powers and his theoretical contributions to our understanding of the mechanisms of colonialism, he has earned his place as one of the 20th century’s most important anti-racist figures.

In What Fanon Said, Lewis Gordon invites us to a close reading of Fanon’s writings to demonstrate the breadth and richness of Fanon’s thought and to clarify its relevance to contemporary social critique. By returning to Fanon’s actual words, Gordon engages with the full scope of Fanon’s work – which spans fields ranging from ethics and existentialism, through psychiatry and psychoanalysis, to political theory – and rediscovers a thinker and activist who still has much to say about today’s racist structures.