Frantz Fanon

Born

July 20, 1925

Died

December 6, 1961 (aged 36)

Known as

writer, philosopher, psychiatrist, essayist, sociologist, politician

Frantz Omar Fanon was a French psychiatrist and political philosopher, who made critical contributions to the fields of post-colonial studies and critical theory. As well as an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical and Pan-Africanist, concerned with the psychopathology of colonization and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization.

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