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Frantz Fanon

2 books in the PoliReads canon. Below: where to start, what each argues, and the traditions they anchor.

About Frantz Fanon

Martiniquais psychiatrist and political philosopher (1925–1961) who joined the Algerian liberation movement and worked as a psychiatrist in Algeria during the war of independence. Fanon died of leukaemia at 36. His work combines clinical analysis of colonial psychology with political theory of revolutionary violence and national liberation — making him indispensable for anti-colonial thought and irreducible to any single political tradition.

Books by Frantz Fanon