“My dad was a Panther. He introduced me to the psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon when I was a teenager. It was a real period of self-discovery and understanding, which everyone has at some point in their teenage years. I was reading the books that had influenced my dad and went on to really influence me. It helped me understand some of what motivates my father, and also the disillusion that he felt. Fanon is a Caribbean hero but also just a great mind. And he speaks a lot about the Black experience in Europe in this book. It is a heavy book and I remember really forcing myself to read and understand it.”
Conclusion
Come, then, comrades; it would be as well to decide at once to change our ways. We must shake off the heavy darkness in which we were plunged, and leave it behind. The new day which is already at hand must find us firm, prudent and resolute.
We must leave our dreams and abandon our
