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Frantz Fanon: From Martinique to Algeria, the journey of an anti-colonialist

Summary by France24
To mark the centenary of his birth, France in Focus looks back at Frantz Fanon's extraordinary career: a volunteer at the age of 18 to fight the Nazis, a committed writer against racism and colonialism, a visionary psychiatrist and a campaigner for Algerian independence.

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Frantz Fanon is the column saint of postcolonialism. His bestseller "The damned of this earth" is regarded as a manifesto of decolonization. Whoever wants to understand the hatred of the left on all Europeans does not get past this racist and violence-glorifying scripture.

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Frantz Fanon is considered an anticolonial thinker and hero of the Algerian liberation movement. He died in 1961, a few months before Algeria's detachment from France. On July 20, Fanon would have become 100 years old.

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The psychiatrist and author of Black Skin, White Masks was a revolutionary. In the light of his own experiences of discrimination, he developed an anti-colonial theory that can uncover deep racist structures and shows that radical humanism is needed.

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