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Frantz Fanon's Intellectual Justification of Counter-Violence book cover

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Frantz Fanon's Intellectual Justification of Counter-Violence

By Zenon Ndayisenga Copyright 2027
186 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores Frantz Fanon’s political ideas on colonial violence and the counter-violence it provokes. Through Fanon’s lens, colonialism is revealed as inherently violent, sustained by the forceful domination of Indigenous peoples and incapable of existing without violence. It argues that Fanon’s concept of counter-violence is a direct and inevitable response to colonial violence. It... Read more

1. Introduction

2. On Colonialism

3. Fanon on Colonial Violence

4. Fanon’s Intellectual Justification of the Theory of Counter-Violence

5. Why is Self-Defense of the Colonized People Mandatory?

6. On Genuine Decolonization

7. Sartre on Retaliating Killings: A Resistance to the Colonial Massacre

8. Mao Zedong and Frantz Fanon’s Political Thoughts on Armed Struggle

9. Fanon’s Brilliant Conceptualization of New Humanism

10. Conclusion

Biography

Zenon Ndayisenga is a researcher in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria. He is a young and energetic Fanonian scholar. His recent publications include Fanon on the Arbitrariness of Using Violence: An Inevitable for Both Colonialism and Decolonization (2022).

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