Details concerning the registration of this association can be found in the Journal Officiel.
The Association for the creation of the Frantz Fanon Foundation, registered on the 13th of June 2007, resulted in the creation of the Frantz Fanon Foundation (Fondation Frantz Fanon). Born in 1925 in Martinique, Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist and essayist regarded as one of the founders of the third-worldism ideological trend. He notably analyzed the effects of colonization on both the settlers and the colonized. A member of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN), he fought for the independence of Algeria.
The Frantz Fanon Foundation operates through various networks (Antilles, United States/Latin America, France, Europe, Middle East, West Africa and East Africa, Asia), working to promote the work and the ideas of Frantz Fanon, in relation to the current national and international state of affairs.
The Frantz Fanon Foundation aims to be:
- A place of memory, archives and publishing where everyone can access the work of Frantz Fanon, the debates and analysis that such work brought about, but also the various records and experience of the anti-colonialist thinkers. The objective is to enhance the work of Frantz Fanon and make it present in the collective memory, in public spaces.
- A place of meetings and reflection where researchers, psychiatrists, caregivers, activists, politicians and citizens can share their ideas through publications and the organization of conferences and debates.
- A place for sharing and expressing solidarity between the Southern and Northern movements participating in the establishment of an anti-colonialist and international solidarity movement, and sharing the same critical approach of the concept of trade at an economic, cultural, social and political level as well as issues regarding the environment.
- A place for public education, training and information, supporting today’s anticolonialist actors; where the mental representations relating to the consequences of past colonization and new forms of colonization and colonialism imposed by the financial and military globalization will be analyzed (in particular the issues of racism or ethnicisation, xenophobia ...)
- A place for resistance and propositions, where citizen campaigns will be encouraged and promoted by all of those who reject stigmatising stereotypes, the alienation of minds, the economical recolonisation, the alleged civilization war, and the upholding of colonial situations and relationships in the world today, as well as the defense of human rights and self-determination.
The president of the Frantz Fanon Foundation, Mireille Fanon-Mendes France, has also recently published an article about the manipulation of memory and multiculturalism, as well as reparations and the legacies of slavery on today’s society.
'It is not about confronting the tormentor, it is about confronting the history as it was written during those four centuries, and to tolerate no digression, lessening, rewriting, on the pretext that we must move on, since the enslaved have all been released by force long ago.'
Source: Website of the Fondation Frantz Fanon
The objectives of the Frantz Fanon Foundation are as follows:
- The publishing and sale of books and/or magazines
- The development (through archival research from other personal funds) of archives holdings deposited in the Institut de l’édition de la mémoire contemporaine –IMEC-
- To organise a library and an Internet-accessible database
- To translate documents and reference books
- To encourage the creation of events to promote the timeliness and relevance of the work and ideas of Frantz Fanon -colloques, meetings, conferences
- To help fund research focusing on subjects of interests, such as the dominant/dominated relationship in a globalized world, the work of Frantz Fanon and its validation
- Tho sign partnerships with research institutes
- To establish a strong cooperation with foreign activists and social movements
- To develop and manage a network of partners within international institutions