Meditations on Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings

I’ve read a number of works commenting and extending on Fanon’s thought (Gordon, Jean-Marie, sharpley-whiting, White) and this is probably the best of them all. Sayles is a through and through through working class scholar.Using his experience as a militant against colonialism to analyze Wretched of the earth, he breaks concepts in an accessible manner without sacrificing the depth or the teeth found in Fanon’s thought.A lot of writers in the halls of academia would like to water down Fanon to find justifications for their existence within his writings (even though he wrote at length about the colonized bourgeois class, it’s reactionary tendencies and where the power for liberation actually lies), you won’t get that with Sayles. He has no need to water down Fanon to justify his existence. Sayles writes as a militant, as a prisoner, and as an (anti)colonial subject. Sayles is part of the liberatory masses Fanon writes about and it shows.I can’t recommend this book enough.