Nigel Gibson

Nigel Gibson is a British activist, a scholar specialising in philosophy and a noted author whose work has focussed, in particular, on Frantz Fanon.Edward Said described Gibson's work as "rigorous and subtle". He has been described as a leading figure in Fanon scholarship.

Gibson was born in London and was an active militant in the 1984–1985 Miners' Strike. While in London he also met South African exiles from the Black Consciousness Movement and, in conversation with the exiles, developed some influential academic work on the movement. He later moved to the United States where he worked with Raya Dunayevskaya in the Marxist Humanism movement, studied with Raymond Geuss and Edward Said and became an important theorist of Frantz Fanon on whom he has written extensively. Along with Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Slavoj Zizek, and others, Gibson endorsed the statement in support of the South African shack dweller organization, Abahlali baseMjondolo, against state violence.

Gibson has co-edited a major collection of work on Theodor Adorno with Andrew N. Rubin and is a co-editor of a collection of work on Steve Biko. His recent work has been marked by a return to an interest in Frantz Fanon (see his edited collection Living Fanon) with a particular focus on the reception of Fanon in popular struggles in South Africa (see Fanonian Practices in South Africa). His Fanon:The Postcolonial Imagination was translated into Arabic in 2013.

He is currently working on a co-authored book on Fanon with Lewis Gordon.

He was previously the Assistant Director of African Studies at Columbia University and a Research Associate in African-American Studies at Harvard University. He is currently Associate Professor at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies and an Honorary Research Professor at the Humanities Unit of the University Formally known as Rhodes. He is a member of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa.

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