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This work examines Frantz Fanon's perspectives on neocolonialism and their impact on South Africa’s youth movements.

May 24, 2026Open Access

Frantz Fanon and the #MustFall movements in South Africa

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This work examines Frantz Fanon's perspectives on neocolonialism and their impact on South Africa’s youth movements.
Literature review of Fanon's writings, particularly The Wretched of the Earth.
Analysis of political and social climate in contemporary South Africa.
Exploration of the #MustFall movements in relation to Fanon's theories.
Frantz Fanon’s theories resonate with the current disillusionment among South African youth.
The elite's consumption contrasts starkly with widespread poverty, reflecting Fanon’s warnings.
Youth movements like #MustFall are manifestations of Fanon's call for resistance against neocolonialism.

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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.

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