Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon was an African psychiatrist and writer who lived from 1925 to 1961. He openly protested colonialization and all of the negative effects that the people under imperialistic rule had to experience. He was one of the main inpirations for the leaders of the Black Power movement in the United States. During the time in which Fanon lived, all the countries of Europe were posessed by racist ideas regarding their colonies. Black people were expected to give up all of their traditions and culture and adopt the white way of living. Fanon was a main supporting force in many of the colonial independence movements, mostly supplying them with supplies.

I found this article extremely interesting as it talks about Fanon's extremely controversial beliefs on combatting colonialism. He believed, not only that it was necessary for colonised people to use violence to combat their oppressors, but also believed that violence was a way to unite all people fighting for independence and "binding people to the liberation movement." I do not share Fanon's belief that violence is necessary to break colonialisms hold. There are surely other ways to fight for independence that do not involve direct combat with the oppressors.