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 ...

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 ...

With his new biography, The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, Adam Shatz seeks to feed Fanon’s moment and ground it in that missing context—Fanon the person, and not just his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In French-ruled Algeria, Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist and an active member of the National Liberation Front. A new movie portrays his commitment to the anti-colonial struggle. Behind a locked door, ...

There has been an effort to negate Fanon’s ideas and sever them from the people of Palestine. But in his work, I find the beginning of a credible path towards liberation. Frantz Fanon at a press ...