Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon
National Liberation Front (FLN, Algeria)
National liberation and anti-colonial movements
1925–1961
○ Illness
1925–1961
○ Illness
The psychiatrist who diagnosed colonialism itself as the disease
“For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must set afoot a new man.” — The Wretched of the Earth, 1961
Psychiatrist and anti-colonial revolutionary from Martinique. His Black Skin, White Masks (1952) dissected the psychological violence of colonialism; The Wretched of the Earth (1961) theorized the liberation struggle. Joined the Algerian FLN and died of leukemia at thirty-six.
Career timeline
- 1944–1945Fights with the Free French forces
- 1952Black Skin, White Masks
- 1953–1956Runs the Blida hospital, treating torture's victims and its practitioners alike
- 1956–1961Joins the FLN; editor and roving ambassador
- 1961The Wretched of the Earth; dies of leukemia