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 ...

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 ...

More than fifty years later, Zohra Drif could still picture the Milk Bar in Algiers on September 30, 1956. It was white and shining, she recalled, awash in laughter, young voices, “summer colors, the ...

“Killing a European is killing two birds with one stone,” Jean-Paul Sartre wrote in 1961, seven years into France’s brutal suppression of the Algerian independence movement. After all, such a killing ...

Swedish filmmaker taps into the primary violence of the coloniser rather than the colonised, says Bhakti Shringarpure Concerning Violence, the latest documentary from Swedish filmmaker Göran Hugo ...

Near the end of The Battle of Algiers, the 1966 film directed by Italian leftist Gillo Pontecorvo, crowds waving flags and chanting slogans surge into the streets of the Algerian capital. The scene is ...

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 ...

Some ideas exist so far beyond one’s own moral boundaries that to hear them articulated out loud, unabashedly, is to experience something akin to awe. That’s how I felt, anyway, when I watched the ...

The 20th-century psychiatrist, who saw violence as necessary to liberation from colonialism, is routinely referenced in conversations about Gaza. A new book considers the complexities of an icon ...

New York Times subscribers* enjoy full access to TimesMachine—view over 150 years of New York Times journalism, as it originally appeared. FRANTZ FANON A Biography. By David Macey. 640 pp. New York: ...

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 ...