DIALECTICS OF FREEDOM IN FRANTZ FANON AND ITS RELEVEANCE IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA

Résumé

In the contemporary African world where national independence has not brought true decolonisation, as colonialism with its oppressive, exploitative and dehumanising tenets persists via socio-political and economic control, Fanon’s anti-colonial philosophydialectics of freedom- stands as an existential remedy. And as a matter of fact, the 2011 North Africans’ (Tunisia, Morrocco, etc ) violent revolution, 2019 and 2020 Sudanese and Malians’ violent revolution that toppled the oppressive governments of Omar AlBashir and Ibrahim Keita, respectively, lend credence to the effectiveness of antithesis of dialectics of freedom. Still, in many African states; Cameroon, Egypt, Nigeria, Niger, Burundi, Uganda, etc exploitation and dehumanisation are increasing as consequences of western neo-colonial influences and dictatorship of indigenous African leaders. This paper therefore investigates Fanon’s dialectics of freedom, visible in his anti- colonial thought, in the light of the present African predicament, and argues for organised reimplementation of Fanon’s antithetical strategy towards liberation of contemporary Africa. The study finds that majority of the oppressed Africans are insentient to their poor condition and unjust systems in the continent hence their show of indifference. The study therefore concludes that effectiveness of antithetical struggle towards authentic African liberation and freedom depends on the self-consciousness of the greater population of the oppressed indigenous Africans.