Quote by Frantz Fanon: “Each generation must discover its mission, fulfil it or betray it, in relative opacity.”

Every era of people inherits an unfinished struggle. It is not enough to admire the work of those who came before — you must figure out what your own moment demands and choose to answer that call or turn away from it. There is no neutral option.

The Wretched of the Earth was published in Paris in 1961, the year Fanon died of leukaemia at thirty-six. Dozens of African nations were declaring independence that decade, and the book became essential reading for liberation movements from Algeria to South Africa to the American civil rights movement.

Martinique-born psychiatrist and political philosopher whose writings on colonialism and revolution shaped anticolonial movements worldwide. His 1961 work The Wretched of the Earth, with a preface by Jean-Paul Sartre, remains one of the foundational texts of postcolonial theory.