Frantz Fanon was a Martinican psychiatrist, philosopher, and revolutionary who exposed the violence colonialism inflicts on the minds and bodies of the colonized, and who gave his life to the Algerian Revolution. Born in Fort-de-France in 1925, he studied under Aimé Césaire. He volunteered to fight fascism with the Free French in the Second World War, and in the French army he met the racism that would shape his thought. Trained as a psychiatrist in Lyon, he published Black Skin, White Masks in 1952, a searching study of how racism and colonialism distort the identity of the colonized.

In 1953 Fanon took charge of a psychiatric hospital at Blida in French-occupied Algeria. There he treated both tortured Algerians and the French soldiers and police who tortured them, and he came to see that no cure was possible inside a colonial society. In 1956 he resigned and joined the National Liberation Front, the FLN. He wrote for its newspaper El Moudjahid and later represented the Algerian provisional government in Africa, working to link the Algerian struggle with liberation movements across the continent.

Dying of leukemia, Fanon wrote The Wretched of the Earth in a matter of months. It analyzes decolonization as a total transformation of society, warns against the national bourgeoisie who would replace the colonizers without changing the system, and sees the dispossessed peasantry as a revolutionary force. He died in December 1961 at thirty-six, months before Algeria won its independence, and was buried in Algerian soil. His work became essential reading for the Black Panthers, African liberation movements, and revolutionaries across the Third World, and it remains a call for each generation to discover its mission and fulfill it.

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