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 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 ...

The Michigan state prison system has banned Frantz Fanon’s seminal race theory book “Black Skin, White Masks” from its libraries. Here’s how legal experts and his daughter, Mireille Fanon-Mendès, are ...

'The Rebel's Clinic' by Adam Shatz. Source: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024 “In front of the sick, we are filled with humility.” With these quiet, reflective words, murmured to trainees during ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Toiling as a clinical psychiatrist in the heart of French-controlled Algeria, Frantz Fanon would conclude after several years of work and struggle, “Today the all-out national war of liberation waged ...