Frantz Fanon and the Struggle for the Independence of Angola

Abstract

In 1959 Frantz Fanon met in Rome with Angolan writers related to the foundation of the MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola). This essay will attempt to analyse the context and the implications this meeting was to have on the organization of the struggle for independence of the Portuguese colonies up to the end of 1961. At the same time, it will look at the theoretical developments fostered by this struggle and the immense practical difficulties encountered by the anticolonial activists, given the extreme genocidal brutality of Portuguese imperialism.