Mireille Fanon-Mendès France, activist, scholar, and daughter of Frantz Fanon, talks about the enduring relevance of his ideas and passions in contemporary political life. Mireille Fanon-Mendès France ...

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 ...

The revolutionary and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon was a foundational figure in postcolonial and decolonial thought and practice, yet his psychiatric work still has only been studied peripherally. That ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. By the time Frantz Fanon died of leukaemia in 1961, aged 36, the Martinique-born philosopher had led multiple ...

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 ...

Frantz Fanon, the intellectual patron saint of violent national resistance movements, is among the authors most likely to be quoted on a sign held up at the protests that have recently taken up so ...

W hen Frantz Fanon was dying of leukemia, he was visited by his old friends Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. The three philosophers conversed long into the night. Eventually, though, Sartre ...

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 ...