Frantz Fanon


Frantz Omar Fanon was a Martiniqueborn AfroCaribbean psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer whose works are influential in the fields of postcolonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism. As an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical, PanAfricanist, and a Marxist humanist concerned with the psychopathology of colonization, and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization.

Frantz Fanon was born on the Caribbean island of Martinique, which was then a French colony and is now a French dpartement. His father was a descendant of enslaved Africans and indentured Indians his mother was of African and European descent, whose white ancestors came from Strasbourg in Alsace. Fanons family was socioeconomically middleclass. They could afford the fees for the Lyce Schoelcher, then the most prestigious high school in Martinique, where Fanon had the writer Aim Csaire as one of his teachers.

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