Frantz Fanon was a French from Martinique who became a psychiatrist who pioneered novel methods to treat patients with mental illnesses and then helped Algerian guerillas during the Algerian War and became active in other African independence struggles, only to die, young, in a US hospital under CIA care. He also wrote about racism and colonialism in ways that reflected both his personal experience and his experience treating people under colonial rule.
That’s a lot to cover, and The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon does its best but I would have liked to see a bit more structure to help the hapless reader make sense of the many facets of his eventful life.
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