Frantz Fanon was a philosopher, psychiatrist, political thinker, writer, and activist born in 1925 in Fort-de-France, Martinique. After attending medical school in France, he became head of psychiatry at the Blida-Joinville Hospital in Algeria from 1953-56. At this time, he joined the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN), the Algerian resistance movement, and was editor of its newspaper, El Moudjahid. Fanon was appointed ambassador to Ghana by the FLN provisional government in 1960. Soon after, however, he fell ill with leukemia, was transported to the U.S. for treatment on the initiative of the Central Intelligence Agency, and died in 1961.
In addition to his two books, Black Skin, White...
