On 2 June at 15.30-17.00 in room E15.39/41, Prof. Ousmane Sarr from the Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal will give a lecture entitled Frantz Fanon: From anti-colonialism to the rise of humanity.
Abstract
The anti-colonialist activist and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon produced a body of thought that has withstood the erosion of time. His sole objective is the materialization and realization of freedom and social justice. This body of thought illustrates its author's humanism, despite the many clichés and hasty and distorted interpretations. This “hypersensitive” founded a fighting ethic, fought against colonialism, Nazism, racism, and various forms of deprivation and human humiliation. For him, colonialism is structurally racist; that is a fact. However, there is something fundamental in man that must be valued and realized: his humanism. Fanon's criticism of colonialism is fundamentally motivated by this desire to free man from his chains, by the ardent desire to achieve the famous rise in humanity. The aim of this paper is to show that Fanon's anti-colonialist thinking, an uncompromising criticism of colonial racism, is also humanist thinking.
