Frantz Fanon and the #MustFall movements in South Africa

Abstract

By his detractors, Frantz Fanon is decried as an advocate of anticolonial violence that cathartic muti (the Zulu term for medicine) to rid native society of the parasitic colonial body politic. Yet, to Mandela's born free generation, he is the prophet of the present, foretelling in The Wretched of the Earth South Africa's presumed neocolonial condition: an elite wallowing in conspicuous consumption, a liberation party sunk into lethargy and corruption, masses of people living in poverty, a country in political, economic, and cultural decay. South Africans are disillusioned, and the black youth is angry.