David Macey
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Frantz Fanon: A Life
David Macey
David Macey’s Frantz Fanon: A Life is an elegant and extremely accomplished biography of one of the 20th century’s most influential third world thinkers, a black man from the Caribbean who died a member of the Algerian FLN and whose violently eloquent writings inspired self-styled revolutionaries around the world.
Born in Martinique, then as now a departement of France, Frantz Fanon (l925-61) trained as a psychiatrist in Lyons before taking up a post in colonial Algeria. He had already experienced racism as a soldier in the Free French Army, for which he had volunteered and in whose ranks he saw combat during the liberation of France. In Algeria, he came into contact with the Front de Liberation National whose ruthless struggle for an independent Algeria was met with quite exceptional violence by the French Army. Fanon identified completely with the FLN and soon became a marked man. Forced to flee Algeria when he resigned his post, Fanon subsequently worked with the FLN as a propagandist and ambassador.
Based on extensive and original research, this is the most compete and objective…
