Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon
Born	Frantz Omar Fanon 20 July 1925 (1925-07-20) Fort-de-France, Martinique
Died	6 December 1961(1961-12-06) (aged 36) Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Lyon
Spouse(s)	Josie Fanon
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Marxism Existentialism
Influences Karl Marx, Aimé Césaire, Négritude, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, György Lukács, Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung, Jean-Paul Sartre, Chester Himes, Alfred Adler
Influenced Edward Said, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Achille Mbembe, Édouard Glissant, Ali Shariati, Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Ché Guevara, Paulo Freire, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, Lewis Gordon

Frantz Omar Fanon (French pronunciation: ​[fʁɑ̃ts fanɔ̃]; 20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a Martinique born Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer whose works are influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism. As 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.

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. For more than five decades, the life and works of Frantz Fanon have inspired national liberation movements and other radical political organizations in Palestine, Sri Lanka, South Africa, and the United States. In What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction To His Life And Thought, leading Africana scholar and contemporary philosopher Lewis R. Gordon remarked that "Fanon's contributions to the history of ideas are manifold. He is influential not only because of the originality of his thought but also because of the astuteness of his criticisms...He developed a profound social existential analysis of antiblack racism, which led him to identify conditions of skewed rationality and reason in contemporary discourses on the human being."