Frantz Fanon died in 1961, struck down by leukemia. He was 36, young enough for the fierce adulation that’s accorded to those to whom fame and death come too soon. A rebellious black man born in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2021, when Grove Press reissued “The Wretched of the Earth,” Frantz Fanon’s classic manifesto of anti-colonial rebellion, the ...

Frantz Fanon, the intellectual patron saint of violent national resistance movements, is among the authors most likely to be quoted on a sign held up at the protests that have recently taken up so ...

W hen Frantz Fanon was dying of leukemia, he was visited by his old friends Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. The three philosophers conversed long into the night. Eventually, though, Sartre ...

For Arab readers in particular, Fanon is not a distant intellectual presence but a figure intimately connected to lived history. He stood with the Algerian revolution at a decisive moment, and his ...

With his new biography, The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, Adam Shatz seeks to feed Fanon’s moment and ground it in that missing context—Fanon the person, and not just his ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. By the time Frantz Fanon died of leukaemia in 1961, aged 36, the Martinique-born philosopher had led multiple ...

Although Frantz Fanon died of leukaemia in 1961 at the age of 36, his passionate commitment against systems of oppression and injustice continues to inspire. From anti-colonial fighters on the African ...

Frantz Fanon’s classic of decolonization, The Wretched of the Earth, was published in Paris in the fall of 1961, as the author lay dying of leukemia in a hospital bed at the National Institutes of ...

In 2021, when Grove Press reissued “The Wretched of the Earth,” Frantz Fanon’s classic manifesto of anti-colonial rebellion, the timing — 60 years after its release and its author’s death — couldn’t ...