Police keep vigil during Saba Saba protests in Kitengela, on July 7, 2025. [Collins Oduor, Standard] July 20 was pivotal day in the history of the world. It was the date of birth of Frantz Fanon, the revolutionary Martiniquian psychologist who chronicled the psychology of post-colonial people’s in classic texts including Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks. He is perhaps most known for his quote: “Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.” In his work, Fanon dealt with how unhealed trauma acted as a block for post-colonial people’s transformation. Black…