Frantz Fanon
1925 – 1961 · France · Philosophy, Medicine
Psychiatrist whose Wretched of the Earth remains the core text of decolonisation.
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Continuity of ideas
Who shaped Frantz Fanon, and who they shaped
Inherited from1
- Jean-Paul Sartre
1905 – 1980 · Philosophy, Literature
Sartre's preface placed The Wretched of the Earth in European debate.
Passed the work to3
- Amílcar Cabral
1924 – 1973 · Philosophy, History
Cabral's cultural theory of liberation answers The Wretched of the Earth.
- Nawal El Saadawi
1931 – 2021 · Literature, Medicine
Colonial and patriarchal domination are analysed together in her clinical writing.
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
1938 – 2025 · Literature
Decolonising the Mind extends Fanon's psychology of colonisation to language itself.
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