Frantz Fanon, born in Martinique in 1925, died in Washington in 1961, psychiatrist and anti-colonial activist, left a work that, half a century later, retains an astonishing topicality and is increasingly spread throughout the world. Chief medical officer at the psychiatric hospital of Blida (Algeria) from 1953 onwards, he is confronted with the effects of the situation of "systematic dehumanization" of the "natives". This led him very quickly to join the struggle of the National Liberation Front which engaged in November 1954 the "war of liberation" of Algeria. Two years later, he resigned from his post and joined the FLN in Tunis, where he collaborated with the newspaper El Moudjahid, before being carried away, on 6 December 1961, by leukemia at the age of thirty-six. His lightning trajectory is marked by the publication of three major books: Black Skin, White Masks (Seuil, 1952), The An V of the Algerian Revolution (Maspero, 1959), The Damned of the Earth (Maspero, 1961). And in 1964, François Maspero published a collection of some of his political texts, under the title Pour la révolution africaine . It is these four works that compile this volume, supplemented by a preface by the historian Achille Mbembe and an introduction by the philosopher Magali Bessone. The Damned of the Earth (Maspero, 1961). And in 1964, François Maspero published a collection of some of his political texts, under the title Pour la révolution africaine . It is these four works that compile this volume, supplemented by a preface by the historian Achille Mbembe and an introduction by the philosopher Magali Bessone. The Damned of the Earth (Maspero, 1961). And in 1964, François Maspero published a collection of some of his political texts, under the title Pour la révolution africaine . It is these four works that compile this volume, supplemented by a preface by the historian Achille Mbembe and an introduction by the philosopher Magali Bessone.--Translation of page 4 of cover by La Découverte: http://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/catalogue/index-Oeuvres-9782707169709.html