The World Blog by humble servant.

Black skin, white masks: This man wanted to cure the disease of colonialism Frantz Fanon is considered a legend of the anti colonial movement not only in Algeria, but all over the world On December 6, 1961, Frantz Fanon, an Afro-Caribbean thinker and psychiatrist, died of a serious illness in the US state of Maryland. A member of the French Resistance who was awarded the Croix de Guerre, Fanon is as significant as he is controversial in the intellectual legacy of anti-colonialism. He lived for only 36 years, but in his short, hard-working, and tragic life, he managed to write a number of works that inspired revolutionaries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and also initiated research in the field of post colonialism. Fanon’s body rests in a cemetery for freedom fighters (Chouhada) in Ain Kerma in eastern Algeria, a country for which the Caribbean philosopher was of particular importance. During the Algerian War against the French colonialists (1954-1962), Fanon joined the Algerian in...