HOW GERMAN IS IT?(Brief Article)

TOM HOLERT ON "THE SHORT CENTURY"

IN 1959, standing before the assembled participants of the Second Congress of Black Artists and Writers in Rome, Frantz Fanon urged those in attendance to reach out to "the people" where it is hardest to do so: "We must join them in the fluctuating movement which they are just giving a shape.... It is to the zone of occult instability where the people dwell that we must come." The question raised by "The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994," which opened in February at ...

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