![]() ![]() For more than five decades, the life and works of Fanon have inspired national liberation movements and other freedom and political movements in Palestine, Sri Lanka, South Africa, and the United States. Fanon has been described as "the most influential anticolonial thinker of his time". ![]() In the course of his work as a physician and psychiatrist, Fanon supported the Algerian War of independence from France and was a member of the Algerian National Liberation Front. As well as being an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical, Pan-Africanist, and Marxist humanist concerned with the psychopathology of colonization and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization. His works have become influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism. Frantz Omar Fanon ( / ˈ f æ n ə n/, US: / f æ ˈ n ɒ̃/ French: 20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a Franchophone Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist, political philosopher, and Marxist from the French colony of Martinique (today a French department). ![]()
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