Nigel Gibson's Presentation from Fanon and Africa Conference (Plus: Viewing Fanon's Book Collection)

by Adele on Jul 23rd, 2013

Nigel Gibson, author of Fanonian Practices in South Africa: From Steve Biko to Abahlali baseMjondolo, was in Algiers last month for the Fanon and Africa conference. The Frantz Fanon Blog has published Gibson?s presentation, titled ?Finding Fanon, Looking for second liberations?.

Gibson also wrote a piece for the blog about how he and Matthieu Renault were given the opportunity to look through a collection of Frantz and Josie Fanon?s books that were recently donated to the Centre National de Recherche Pr?historique Anthropologiques et Historique (CNRPAH) by their son, Oliver.

Read Gibson?s paper and the piece about his opportunity to page through Fanon?s books:

I was introduced to Fanon via Steve Biko, and it was in 1981 that I first met Black Consciousness ?migr?s from South Africa in London. 1981 was the year of the hunger strikes in Northern Ireland. Bobby Sands and other prisoners were also reading Fanon finding the measure of national culture as a ?combat culture? essential as, in the hellholes of the H blocks, they taught each other the Irish language as a conscious anti-colonial activity.

When Sliman Hachi, the director of the Centre National de Recherche Pr?historique Anthropologiques et Historique (CNRPAH), announced that Olivier Fanon had donated his parents? books to the Centre, the question that Matthieu Renault and I asked was, ?When could we take at look at them?? We were in Algiers for a conference on ?Africa Today and Fanon? organized by CNRPAH and Matthieu was leaving the next day. The library was a mixture of Frantz and Josie Fanon?s books, so during a break in the conference I asked Olivier Fanon about the collection. Apparently, these were the books that his father had left when he left the country in December 1956 and, as far as I understand, Josie had boxed them up and taken them to Lyon. We can only assume that they developed a new library in Tunis. Certainly, notes Alice Cherki, Fanon liked to frequent the bookstore owned by a Monsieur Levy and at one point asked his assistant Marie-Jeanne Manuellan to purchase everything in the shop by Freud.

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