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Frantz Fanon born
On 20 July 1925 Frantz Omar Fanon, psychiatrist, revolutionary and pioneering anti-colonialist theorist was born in the French colony of Martinique. Fanon served in the Free French Army during World War II in North Africa, and like many Black colonial troops, experienced racism. Living in Algeria he supported the independence movement until he was forced to leave the country, at which point he became an ambassador for the Algerian National Liberation Front. His seminal works include Black Skin, White Masks, and “The Wretched of the Earth, and focused not just on the politics and economics of colonialism but also its internal and psychological effects. For example, in Wretched*, he states: “The famous dictum which states that all men are equal will find its illustration in the colonies only when the colonized subject states he is equal to the colonist.” Learn more in this detailed biographical account of his life: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/frantz-fanon-a-biography-david-macey
Exact location: Here in Fanon’s home town is a road named after him.
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