Frantz Fanon Quotes


The zone where the natives live is not complementary to the zone inhabited by the settlers.


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Frantz Fanon, 1925-1961, Martinique Psychiatrist, Philosopher and Anti-Colonialist, Quoted in Jimmie Durham, Often Durham Employs, 1998

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Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon
  • Born: July 20, 1925
  • Died: December 6, 1961
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Psychologist

Frantz Omar Fanon, also known as Ibrahim Frantz Fanon, was a French West Indian 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.