Published January 15, 2024 POMEPS Studies 53: Frantz Fanon in the Middle East (Project on Middle East Political Science) · 2024

Between Presence and Conspicuous Absences: Fanon in Moroccan Political Thought

Dahbi, K. & Sakhi, M. — German Institute for Global and Area Studies / IAS-UM6P

Abstract

Tracing the intellectual trajectory of Frantz Fanon’s decolonial thought within Moroccan political life from the late 1960s to the Arab uprisings, Dahbi and Sakhi demonstrate how key leftist figures selectively transformed Fanonian frameworks, and how 2011 momentarily revived Fanon’s relevance after decades of marginalisation — contributing to the broader comparative literature on postcolonial theory in North Africa.