Continuer Fanon, or Sonko's Political Testament

The calendar's coincidence carries the weight of a symbol. On May 14, 2026, Ousmane Sonko published Continuer Fanon, a short book drawn from a speech delivered in 2025, released in a trilingual English-French-Wolof edition by Déberlinisation Lab. Eight days later, he was dismissed from the office of Prime Minister by President Bassirou Diomaye Faye. Then elected President of the National Assembly. Jules Crétois, writing in Le Monde, reads this political text as an ideological roadmap for what comes next.

The book opens on a central question: "How do we finish what Frantz Fanon began?" By claiming the legacy of the Martinican anticolonial thinker, Sonko intends to recall the radical core of his thought at a moment when his opposition to the president turned precisely on the scope of compromises acceptable in the exercise of power.

This text marks a shift in Sonko's intellectual trajectory. Where his 2018 bestseller Solutions. Pour un Sénégal nouveau adopted a technical approach and seemed open to economic liberalism, Continuer Fanon takes up a resolutely revolutionary language. He revisits Fanon's theses on the "parasitic" character of the bourgeoisies of decolonized nations and denounces the "colonial economic model" in which Senegal remains, he argues, trapped.