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FANON, BIKO, ONYEANI AND THE POLITICS OF SPACE
by Chigachi Eke
July 3, 2009 - There’s a common ground between Franz Fanon, Steve Biko and Chika Onyeani in their engagement of Slave/Master dialectics, or psychology of oppression. You begin to notice a preponderance of harmony in their works too similar for coincidence.
Fanon was an influence on Biko who frankly admitted as such. But I cannot say the same of Onyeani because his work bears no bibliography, only an index. Also, the writer does not live or work at home in Nigeria for a possible one-on-one interview. This robs African researchers any hope of getting him comment on his work. (click here) |
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INTRODUCTION TO CHIKA ONYEANI'S "CAPITALIST NIGGER"
I have always felt that an alternative introduction to Chika Onyeani's "Capitalist Nigger" would stimulate different readings. But the author himself gave us an introduction to his work; an introduction I honestly believe did not do justice to the book.
The type of introduction I had looked forward to would tend to cast this work as a progression of a consciousness traceable to Onyeani's predecessors, especially these four, WEB Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Franz Fanon and Steve Biko. He shares similar views with these writers on black emancipation but their angles of engagement vary given their respective epochs.
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