Frantz Fanon (1925 - 1961) was an author from Martinique, essayist, psychoanalyst, and revolutionary. He was perhaps the preeminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization. His works have inspired anti-colonial liberation movements for more than four decades.
This century's most compelling theorist of racism and
colonialism
*Angela Davis*
Have the courage to read this book
*Jean-Paul Sartre*
Fanon details the impact of colonialism on the psyches of black
people. For the first time, I was able to understand empire as more
than just an economic phenomenon, and in turn how much Africa's
decolonisation was expected to reverse. Reading it more than 50
years after publication was a visceral confrontation with a legacy
that remains a shadow over black people
*Guardian*
In clear language, in words that can only have been written in the
cool heat of rage, he showed us the internal theatre of racism
*Independent*
The writing of Malcolm X or Eldridge Cleaver or Amiri Baraka or the
Black Panther leaders reveals how profoundly they have been moved
by the thoughts of Frantz Fanon
*Boston Globe*
This is not so much a book as a rock thrown through the window of
the West. It is the Communist Manifesto of the anticolonial
revolution, and as such it is highly important for any Western
reader who wants to understand the emotional force behind that
revolution
*Time*
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