Nigel C. Gibson

Nigel C. Gibson is an activist and scholar specializing in the work of the Algerian revolutionary Frantz Fanon. Gibson is author of Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination (Polity Press, 2003), which won the 2009 Caribbean Philosophy Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book Award and was translated into Arabic in 2013, and Fanonian Practices in South Africa: From Steve Biko to Abahlali baseMjondolo (University of Kwa Zulu- Natal Press and Palgrave MacMillan, 2011) and the co-author with Roberto Beneduce of Fanon: Psychiatry and Politics (Rowman and Littlefield and University of Witwatersrand Press, 2017). Along with this edited collection on Fanon, he has edited Rethinking Fanon: The Continuing Dialogue (1999) and Living Fanon (2011). He teaches at Emerson College, Boston USA and is Honorary Professor in the Humanities Unit at the university currently known as Rhodes Univer- sity, South Africa.