A Tribute to All Those Who Fought for a Better World and Died So Young: The Thirty-Second Newsletter (2025)
Though they died young, revolutionaries like Frantz Fanon and Patrice Lumumba made invaluable contributions to anti-colonial and national liberation struggles.
Screenshot from Larry Achiampong and David Blandy (UK), Finding Fanon (2018).
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
In July, a few days after the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s birth, I had lunch with his daughter, Mireille Fanon Mendčs-France. When I commented that Fanon had died so young, at thirty-nine, Mireille corrected me: ‘No, thirty-six’. Even three more years would have been a gift – to him because he might have been able to finish other work and spend more time with his family, and to us because we might have gotten the book that would have come after ...









