Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon

Frantz Omar Fanon (, US: ; French: [fʁɑ̃ts fanɔ̃]; 20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961), also known as Ibrahim Frantz Fanon, was a Marxist, Franchophone Afro Caribbean psychiatrist and political philosopher from the French colony of Martinique (today a French department). His works have become influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism. 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.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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frantz Fanon has received more than 2,884,107 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Frantz Fanon is the 441st most popular writer (up from 545th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Martinique and the most popular Writer.

Frantz Fanon is most famous for his book, "The Wretched of the Earth." In it, he argues that violence is necessary for the liberation of colonized people.