Fanon believed in radical democracy.
Claudia Jones was born ten years before Fanon in Port of Spain(Trinidad and Tobago).
When Lumumba was murdered on 17 January 1961, Fanon wrote a moving obituary for him.
Its leaders are as influenced by Lenin, Sartre, Stalin, and Fanon as they are by the Prophet.
Ali Shariati, the key intellectual behind the Iranian revolution of 1978- 79,
translated Franz Fanon, Che Guevara, and Jean-Paul Sartre into Persian.
One of Fanon's most pressing ideas is that the intellectual cannot
simply leap into the universal and avoid the muck of everyday struggles;
Both books established Fanon in the eyes of much of the Third World as one
of the leading anti-colonial thinkers of the 20th century.
Lumumba believed in his mission', wrote Fanon- a mission to liberate his people,
to make sure that his people no longer lived in great poverty and indignity, despite the riches of the Congo.
When I was 16, a copy of Frantz Fanon's 1952 classic Black Skin,
White Masks was given to me by white schoolfriends amused by my new militant stance and whose motives, I suspect, were slightly tongue-in-cheek.