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Professor Lewis Gordon, head of the philosophy in the University of Connecticut, equated revolutions such as the Haitian revolution with love, at his feature presentation during the Kwame Toure Memorial Lecture Series at NAPA, Port of Spain, on June 15.

Gordon spoke on colonialism and revolution through the eyes of Frantz Omar Fanon, a French West Indian psychiatrist, political philosopher and Marxist from Martinique.

“At the heart of every revolution is the radicality of love,” he said. “At the heart of revolution is the courage and the commitment to build the extraordinary in such a way that future generations could live it in their own ways, which would be ordinary for them.