Day 1 - Fanon for Beginners by Deborah Wyrick

This is an interesting book explaining the life and work of Frantz Fanon, the psychiatrist and political philosopher from Martinique who wrote about many things, including colonization and decolonization. It is an easy read with a lot of cartoons throughout.

The part of this book that stuck with me was Fanon’s support for the Algerian National Liberation Front. Algeria gained their independence from France in 1962. My grandmother was French and born in Algeria around 1910. I don’t know the whole story or how long they were there, but the family must have moved back to France shortly after that.

I come from a family of colonizers. That’s something to think about and learn about.