| This dissertation aims to demonstrate that for Fanon, in spite of his evocation of violence as a necessary ingredient in the search for a humanized world, it is not violence that would establish a world free of exploitation. Violence dehumanizes and it detoxifies the oppressed. Fanon's life was characterized by violent acts and hence his writings were a direct response to this situation of violence especially as experienced by black people. This situation involved the challenges presented by a number of major problems: economic, social, cultural and political. These challenges manifested themselves in the corrosive influence of colonial racism and also in the contradictory needs of the blacks to accept the benefits of European civilization and yet at the same time retain a sense of personal and cultural identity and a sense of self-worth. Proper investment in an Africanized education is a key to a way towards humanization. Professor Ki-Zerbo, the African intellectual and educator will lead us.; The strength of this work will be on the analysis of how dialoguing with Fanon opens up different philosophical discussions. I hear him telling us that knowledge of history, its terrible and obdurate effects, above all, the experience of crisis of which the African condition is abounding, is and ought to be the occasion of language and thought regarding what Fanon called "human things." Indeed as the Akan elders would say: "Crisis is the occasion of the proverb." This is then a refusal to accept that "the history of Africa is the history of its invaders." What matters here is how the oppressed people took and still do take action to humanize a dehumanizing situation. |
