Michela Wrong

The fresh, forceful voice of Frantz Fanon

The Marxist from Martinique became a rallying figure for anti-colonial movements across the world. But might he have revised his violent message had he lived longer?

Frantz Fanon: psychiatrist, philosopher and icon to leftist revolutionaries. [Alamy]

  • The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

    Adam Shatz

    Bloomsbury, pp. 464, £25

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