Izimpabanga Zomhlaba
by Frantz Fanon
Translated into isiZulu by Makhosazana Xaba
The Wretched of the Earth is a 1961 book by Frantz Fanon that provides a psychoanalysis of the dehumanizing effects of colonization upon the individual and the nation. The book presents an analytical exploration of the inner workings and various stages of the decolonization process, as well as an impassioned apology for the need for violence in the anticolonial struggle.
Tomorrow awaits our awakening.
The reconstructed us.
The self-conscious collective.
The responsible & inspired us.
Tomorrow will not abandon us.
- Makhosazana Xaba in The Alkalinity of Bottled Water
About Khosi
Makhosazana ‘Khosi’ Xaba is an award-winning South African anthologsit and short-story writer. She is also a poet, essayist and editor; and an Associate Professor of Practice at the University of Johannesburg. She holds a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Wits University and a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) from Rhodes University.
Most recently, she translated Frantz Fanons’s Wretched of the Earth (published by Inking Book) into isiZulu and completed a writing residency at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study.
Her long-term project is writing the biography of Helen Nontando Jabavu.
