340pp., paperback, First SA Edition, Johannesburg, 2024
First published in the UK in 2024.
Nigel Gibson on Frantz Fanon’s writing, psychiatric practice and lived experience in the Caribbean, France and Africa.
"Nigel C. Gibson has once again given a fascinatingly accessible account of Fanon's contemporary relevance to the perennial problem of antiblack racism as expressed through the Black Lives Matter movement" Mabogo Percy More, author of Noel Chabani Manganyi: Being-while-black-and-alienated in apartheid South Africa
Nigel C. Gibson is Professor of African Studies at Emerson College, Boston. He is author of Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination (2003, winner of the Caribbean Philosophy Association prize) and Fanonian Practices in South Africa: From Steve Biko to Abahlali baseMjondolo (2011) and co-author (with Roberto Beneduce) of Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics (2017). He is the editor of Rethinking Fanon (1999), Challenging Hegemony: Social Movements and the Quest for a New Humanism in Post-Apartheid South Africa (2006), Living Fanon (2011) and Fanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth (2021) and co-editor of Contested Terrains: Contemporary Africa in Focus (2002) and Biko Lives (2008).