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Guerrilla History

Frantz Fanon: The Life and Works w/ Lou Turner (AR&D Ep.12)

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8622 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

In this installment of our African Revolutions and Decolonization series, we host a critically important deep dive into Fanon's life and work with Professor Lou Turner!  With 2025 being the 100th anniversary of Fanon's birth, there is no better time for this discussion than now.  We really found the conversation a rich one, and are sure you will learn a lot from it.  Help us out by sharing it!

Lou Turner is Clinical Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Find and read Lou's work!  One place you can find some of it is Researchgate.

Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory 

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You don't remember Den Van Booh?

0:09.0

No!

0:10.0

The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.

0:14.0

They didn't have anything but a rank.

0:17.0

The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare.

0:22.9

But they put some guerrilla action on.

0:39.2

Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckermacki, joined as usual by my co-host Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director

0:45.1

of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. It's

0:49.7

nice to see you. It's been a while since we've seen each other, but it's nice to see you again. How are you

0:53.5

doing? I'm doing well. It really has been a while. It's been a while since we've seen each other, but it's nice to see you again. How are you doing?

1:00.1

I'm doing well. It really has been a while. It's delightful to be with you, looking forward to this conversation. Absolutely. We have a really fascinating discussion plan today, one that we've been

1:06.8

planning for a long time, but we wanted to get it into the confines of our African

1:11.2

revolutions and decolonization series. And so now that we have this series going on actively,

1:17.0

it's the right time for this conversation. But before I introduce the topic and I introduce

1:22.1

the fantastic guests that we have with us today for the conversation, I'd like to remind the

1:26.9

listeners that they can help support the show and allow us to continue making episodes like this by going to patreon.com forward slash guerrilla history. That's G-U-E-R-R-I-L-A history. And you can follow the show on various social media platforms. I have problems logging in and posting things these days, but you can find the show on Twitter at

1:45.8

Gorilla underscore Pod, Instagram, Gorilla underscore History.

1:49.5

And we have an email newsletter, gorillahistory.substack.com.

1:54.1

And in all of those cases, Gorilla is spelled G-U-E-R-R-I-L-A with two L's, or two R's and two L's.

2:01.6

So with that out of the way, I'd like to introduce our guest for this conversation that we're going to be having on France Fanon.

2:07.7

We have Professor Lou Turner.

2:09.9

Professor Turner is a clinical professor in urban and regional planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Hello, Professor. I'll call you Lou from here on because I know that you told me to do that. Thank you very much, yeah. How are you doing, Lou? Nice to have you on the show. By doing well, a little tired from a field trip with my class just today to Chicago, but doing well and looking forward to this discussion.

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