ABSTRACT
Children figure in complex and contested ways within Frantz Fanon's anti-colonial analyses, including the affects mobilised and exercised around them. The term 'extemic' is a neologism ascribing a position that is as much outside as inside and, correspondingly, inside as outside. The term helps to understand child as subject of and within the social; as agentic, and even resisting. This chapter explores range of childhood and educational motifs occurring across Fanon's writings to suggest that these not only illuminate more of Fanon's distinctive analysis of decolonisation, but also offer resources for addressing current debates on the political ambiguities of discourses of childhood, gender, education, and development. Fanon also mobilises child to ward off a pre-colonial narrative of postcolonial development. Pedagogy of solidarity engages Extemic child as joint partner in a project of transformation that is personal, societal, and political.
