Frantz Fanon's seminal work on the trauma of colonization made him the leading
anti-colonialist thinker of the twentieth century. Written at the height of the
Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in
1961, it analyses the role of class, race, national culture and violence in the
struggle for freedom.
Fanon, himself a psychotherapist, makes clear the economic and psychological
degradation inflicted by imperialism. Showing how decolonization must be
combined with building a national culture, this passionate analysis of relations
between the West and the Third World is still illuminating about the world
today.