In 2021, when Grove Press reissued “The Wretched of the Earth,” Frantz Fanon’s classic manifesto of anti-colonial rebellion, the timing — 60 years after its release and its author’s death — couldn’t ...

Frantz Fanon’s classic of decolonization, The Wretched of the Earth, was published in Paris in the fall of 1961, as the author lay dying of leukemia in a hospital bed at the National Institutes of ...

Soldier, psychiatrist, philosopher... who was Frantz Fanon? A new film by director Jean-Claude Barny seeks to answer that question in a year that marks a century since the birth of one of the most ...

One of the 20th century's major revolutionary thinkers, Frantz Fanon, was an African Caribbean psychiatrist who treated French torturers of local Arabs in Algeria, then used this extraordinary ...

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 ...

Frantz Fanon died in 1961, struck down by leukemia. He was 36, young enough for the fierce adulation that’s accorded to those to whom fame and death come too soon. A rebellious black man born in the ...

This is FRESH AIR. Frantz Fanon was a Martinique-born doctor who became famous in the 1960s for his writing about the politics and the psychology of colonialism. Fanon died in 1961. His life and work ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. Fatin Abbas argues that the uprisings that have erupted across north Africa and the Middle East in ...

In the months since October 7, a great deal of American commentary has brandished the words of Martinican psychiatrist and anticolonial revolutionary Frantz Fanon as evidence of the supposed moral ...

On 6 December 2011, 50 years will have passed since the death of Frantz Fanon. Around the world people are getting together in universities, trade union offices, shack settlements, prisons, church ...