Frantz Fanon mémoire dasile

Using archive material and presentday accounts the recalls the life of the AfroCaribbean psychiatrist Frantz Fanon In 1953 at the age of twenty eigh Fanon was appointed head doctor at the psychiatric hospital in BlidaJoinville a few kilometres from Algiers As amedical student in Paris he had been appalled by the living conditions of the Algerian immigrants and gave over the rest of his brief life to analysing the alienation of the black man of colonised people and man in general The forcefulness of his writing as in Black Skin White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth and the pertinence of his reasoning still resonate strongly into todays world