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Why are some activists/theorists considered failures?

What is it about?

This paper compares the careers and ideas of two anti-colonial activists/theorists, Lamine Senghor and Frantz Fanon. Both men died young, before the revolutions they theorised had been achieved but Fanon is deemed a success while Senghor's activism is seen to have ended in failure. Why is this the case?

Why is it important?

This paper invites the reader to think again about how and why we right off certain figures/movements as failures. It argues that when we approach the past, we often judge events in light of what we know to have been the outcome rather than thinking ourselves back into the mindset of historical actors who did not set out to do things knowing they would fail.

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