You often refer to Frantz Fanon in your lectures as a liberating writer of his times whose relevance extends beyond infinity in both Social Sciences and Literature. Tell us the significance of Frantz Fanon and why you value his work so much. Yes, I do tend to come back to Fanon often in my teaching and in my research. In the U.S., outside the academy, Fanon has been most dominantly associated with the Black Panthers: his influence on Huey Newton and Bobby Seale is well known. Guerilla-type liberators throughout the world, often influenced by Mao Zedong, have also embraced Fanon. As a result, he tends to be quickly dismissed by some theorists and thinkers, often those who cite Hannah Arendt, as being all about violence, and he is accused of condoning its extensive use. But, as his one-time teacher, Aimé Césaire, who outlived Fanon by many years, wrote in Fanon’s…

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