‘I am my own foundation’
Megan Vaughan: Fanon and Third Worldism, 18 October 2001
Frantz Fanon: A Life
by David Macey.
Granta, 640 pp., £12.99, September 2001,1 86207 458 5 Show More
by David Macey.
Granta, 640 pp., £12.99, September 2001,
“... In August 1777 a crowd gathered in Port Louis, the capital of the Indian Ocean island of Ile de France (now Mauritius), for the execution of Benoît Giraud, otherwise known as ‘Hector the Mulatto’. Though the term ‘mulatto’ implied some ‘white’ parentage, Giraud was also described as a ‘free-born black’ from Martinique, an island on the other side of the French colonial empire ... ”