About WritersMosaic: Franz Fanon the Freedom Fighter
Black Skin, White Mask (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961) by the Afro-Caribbean writer Frantz Fanon are classics which have inspired generations of thinkers, activists and writers.
Deeply engaged in the struggle for Algerian independence, Fanon was a philosopher, colonial soldier, administrator, progressive psychiatrist, institutional reformer, guerrilla, family man, and speechwriter.
His writing for the emancipation of colonised peoples everywhere continues to echo into the 21st century. A century on from his birth in Fort-de-France, Martinique, WritersMosaic returns to the British Library to reassess Fanon's impact.
The line up includes Ekow Eshun, author of The Strangers (which features Fanon and his time as a psychiatrist in Algiers) and the poet and Cameroonian psychotherapist Clementine E. Burnley, with upcoming drummer and vocalist Donna Thompson.
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