Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist, political theorist, and militant in the Algerian revolution. Born in Martinique in 1925, he studied psychiatry in France and in 1953 accepted the directorship of the psychiatric hospital of Blida (Algeria). At the outbreak of the independence war, he joined the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN). Claiming that it was impossible to practice psychiatry in the Algerian context, Fanon resigned from his position in the summer of 1956, with his “Letter to the resident Minister,” reprinted in his posthumous work, For the African Revolution (1964). Then he became the Front’s roving ambassador in Africa, and an editor of its newspaper el Moudjahid. He died from leukemia in Washington (USA) on December 6, 1961.
Fanon is rightly considered one of the most path-breaking political theorists of this century, the one who has given philosophical articulation to the experience of Europe’s colonial subjects and measured against this reality the poverty of...
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Federici, S., Mouralis, B. (2021). Fanon, Frantz. In: Mudimbe, V.Y., Kavwahirehi, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of African Religions and Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2068-5_150
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