Who was Frantz Fanon, the author of Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks, this Pan-African thinker and psychiatrist engaged in anti-colonialist struggles? Born in Martinique, Frantz Fanon ...

In 1970, Med Hondo, a Mauritanian-born French filmmaker renowned for his radical productions, released “Soleil O,” which seems to echo the sentiments of Frantz Fanon’s 1952 book “Black Skin, White ...

His BFI film on Frantz Fanon, made in 1995, co-written and directed with Mark Nash, focuses on the story of the psychiatrist from Martinique who made his name as a vivid and penetrating theoretician ...

It is the evocation of a life as brief as it is dense. An encounter with a dazzling thought, that of Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist of West Indian origin, who will reflect on the alienation of black ...

Near the end of The Battle of Algiers, the 1966 film directed by Italian leftist Gillo Pontecorvo, crowds waving flags and chanting slogans surge into the streets of the Algerian capital. The scene is ...

In 1953, Dr. Frantz Fanon from Martinique takes up his position as head doctor at a psychiatric clinic in Blida, Algeria. Racist colonial psychiatry dominates everyday life in the clinic. The French ...

Toiling as a clinical psychiatrist in the heart of French-controlled Algeria, Frantz Fanon would conclude after several years of work and struggle, “Today the all-out national war of liberation waged ...

Although Frantz Fanon died of leukaemia in 1961 at the age of 36, his passionate commitment against systems of oppression and injustice continues to inspire. From anti-colonial fighters on the African ...

Adam Shatz’s “The Rebel’s Clinic,” a new biography of the psychiatrist and revolutionary Frantz Fanon, aims to restore complexity to a man both revered and reviled for his militancy. By Jennifer ...

Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist, diplomat, and scholar whose work has had a major influence on the study of colonialism and de-colonialism. Fanon was born a French citizen on the Caribbean island of ...