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Nigel Gibson is an activist and scholar. He was born in London and was an active militant in the 1984 -1985 Miners' Strike. While in London he also met South African exiles from the Black Consciousness Movement and, in conversation with the exiles, developed some influential academic work on the movement. The Black Consciousness Movement ( BCM was a Grassroots anti- Apartheid activist movement that emerged in South Africa in the mid-1960s out of He later moved to the United States where he worked with Raya Dunayevskaya in the Marxist Humanism movement, studied with Edward Said and became an important theorist of Frantz Fanon on whom he has written extensively. Raya Dunayevskaya ( 1 May 1910 &ndash 9 June 1987) was the founder of the Philosophy of Marxist Humanism in the United Marxist humanism is a branch of Marxism that primarily focuses on Marx's earlier writings, especially the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts Edward Wadie Saïd MRSL ( إدوارد وديع سعيد,; 1 November 1935 &ndash 25 September Frantz Fanon ( July 20, 1925 – December 6, 1961) was a Psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and author from He has also edited a major collection of work on Theodor Adorno. Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno ( September 11, 1903 &ndash August 6, 1969) was a German -born international sociologist His work has been widely influential in South Africa where it is often cited by academics and activists. [1] He appears to be closely associated[2] with the South African shackdwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo. Abahlali baseMjondolo is a popular entirely non-professionalized and democratic mass movement of Shack dwellers and other poor people in South Africa. He is a member of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa.

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Articles available online

Black Consciousness 1977-1987: The Dialectics of Liberation in South Africa

The Pitfalls of South Africa's Liberation

The limits of black political empowerment: Fanon, Marx, 'the Poors' and the 'new reality of the nation' in South Africa

Is Fanon Relevant? Translations, the postcolonial imagination and the second stage of total

Zabalaza, Unfinished struggles against apartheid: the shackdwellers' movement in Durban

A New Politics of the Poor Emerges from South Africa's Shanty Towns

References

  1. ^ University of Abahlali baseMjondolo | Abahlali baseMjondolo
  2. ^ Article on the Abahlali baseMjondolo website mentioning Gibson

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