This is the opening to my essay on the legcy of Frantz Fanon, published in the Observer on 27 July 2025. You can read the full version in the Observer. “Every brother on the rooftop can quote Fanon”, the Black Panthers’ Eldridge Cleaver once claimed. In the 1960s, Frantz Fanon, the Caribbean-born Algerian revolutionary, was a hero of Black Power and national liberation movements, drawn as they were to his excoriation of colonialism. By the 1980s, Fanon had become an […]

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