![]() Influenced by psychopathology, Pan-Africanism and Marxism, he argued that colonized peoples not only had the right to use violence in the overthrow of their colonial masters but that it was necessary for their mental health and political liberation. His experience of the Algerian War of Independence inspired him to write The Wretched of the Earth. Fanon joined the FLN, but continued to work at a French run hospital where he was responsible for treating both French soldiers experiencing psychological distress from engaging in torture, and Algerians who were being tortured.Īfter leaving his work at the hospital in 1956, Fanon served as Ambassador to Ghana for the Provisional Algerian Government. The following year, the Front de Libération Nationale began their war of independence from France for the North African nation. ![]() Afterwards he wrote and published his first book, Black Skin, White Masks, an analysis of the negative psychological effects of colonial subjugation upon Black people. After the war he returned to France to study medicine and psychiatry in Lyon, and qualified in 1951. Despite arriving in France as a liberator, he was subjected to constant racism from the French he had come to help. Few have understood the legacy of colonialism quite like philosopher, psychiatrist and revolutionary, Frantz Fanon.īorn on the Caribbean island of Martinique, a French colony, in 1925, Fanon left home at the age of 18 to join the Free French forces fighting the Nazis in Europe at the height of World War II. Not just in decimated indigenous communities across the world, but within the Western world as well. The impacts of colonialism reverberate down through the ages and are still felt deeply today. Since the first days of Western Europeans setting out to stake claims in indigenous lands that didn’t belong to them, the native peoples of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas have suffered brutality and slavery, poverty and death. ![]() Nor is it particular to the nations that were colonized. The legacy of colonialism is not simply confined to the history books. ![]()
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