Frantz Fanon -Martinique/ France- (1925-1961)
Frantz Fanon was a physician and writer, a Martinican anti-colonialist fighter. In 1957, as a psychiatrist posted in Blida (Algeria), he is suspected of collaboration with the rebels and expelled. Exiled in Tunis, capital of the FLN in exile, he becomes one of the main spokespersons and editors of El Moujahid, the body of FLN propaganda. In February 1960, he was appointed permanent representative of the interim government of the Algerian Republic in Accra. Suffering from leukaemia, he died at the age of 36. Algeria’s independence will be proclaimed the following year.
