A psychiatrist and revolutionary, Fanon didn’t just write about colonization, he lived the struggle in Algeria, documenting with unflinching clarity how empire works on the human psyche, distorting identity, breeding violence, and demanding liberation. The Wretched of the Earth is not merely a book; it is a manual. Fanon’s 1961 insights remain relevant to the world we are navigating right now.

Founded by Chicago rapper Noname in August 2019, the Noname Book Club makes reading selections each month to discuss among an online and in-person community of readers, with meetups held in cities across the country. Chapters now exist across the United States and in international cities including London, Lagos, Accra, and Nairobi. This April, all of them are gathering around Fanon.

Fanon’s ideas are a lot to sit with on your own, and that’s precisely the point, these are ideas meant to be turned over in community, challenged, extended, and brought into contact with present realities. Whether you are coming to Fanon for the first time or returning to him for the fifth, there is a chapter near you ready to have that conversation. Every voice makes the discussion richer.

Pick up a copy, read at your own pace throughout April, then find your local chapter at nonamebooks.com/Local-Chapters and pull up to a discussion near you.

Below are the current chapters to join: