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Frantz Fanon: Toward The African Revolution- Bongani Nyoka, Li'Tsoanelo Zwane & Nokuthula Hlabangane

This Webinar took place on Thursday, 22 May 2025 in the Department of Sociology at the University of Zululand in South Africa. It focused on Frantz Fanon's book: Toward The African Revolution - where Fanon writes in this book as an anti-colonial psychiatrist and African revolutionary philosopher: beginning with questioning the racism of French doctors who declare Algerians as inherently sick from being inferior, lazy, and incapable. Fanon questions this unscientific medical practice, bringing to the fore the institutional and systematic nature of colonial rule. For the colonised to obtain independence, Fanon calls for African unity beyond imperialist nation states created by European thought. This unity will entail a people's political struggle carried out in epistemic terms to achieve the military victory against settler society ------- Speakers: Li'Tsoanelo Zwane - is Lecturer of Ethics (African Moral Philosophy, Social Ethics, and Business Ethics); and Doctoral candidate in the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of the Western Cape. Dr Bongani Nyoka - is Associate Professor and Head of Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Development at the University of Fort Hare; and author of "The Social and Political Thought of Archie Mafeje". Prof Nokuthula Hlabangane - is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of South Africa. Her interest lies in freeing knowledge and thus being from the clutches and common sense of coloniality. She is an active learner from the spring-wells of the African knowledge-keepers. Interested in the meta-physics of knowledge traditions, Hlabangane's work is a conversation between various knowledge traditions. ------ Facilitator: Dr Pedro Mzileni is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Zululand in South Africa; with a research focus on Global Higher Education Studies, International History, Decolonial Thought, and Sociologies of Africa. He's Coordinator of the Seminar Series in the Department. ------ The Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zululand is taking initiative to advance the University’s intellectual culture as it crusades ahead to unchartered territory of becoming a Node for African thought. We do this on our part by introducing the 2nd Annual Africa Month Webinar Series that will feature panel discussions to review the four books written by Franz Fanon - to commemorate his centenary and legacy. ------- Why #Fanon100? Well, Fanon is one of the important philosophers in international anti-colonial liberation struggle, who has written two original texts: Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth. A collection of essays were then published posthumously: A Dying Colonialism and Toward the African Revolution. Fanon’s works are used today in university classrooms, protest movements, and anti-colonial struggles to conscientise, mobilise and resist the modern problems of coloniality - from Palestine, South Africa, America, and everywhere else. We therefore take time on this seminar series, on his 100th birthday, to reflect on his writings, take further lessons, and organise - to use his ideas today in search for our freedom.