Frantz FanonDoctor, militant, political essayist, ambassador, teacher, journalist, pan Africanist: Frantz Fanon represented a new model of engaged intellectual who sought to decolonise mid twentieth century thought, society, and culture and move beyond the ideology of race. Born Black in colonial Martinique, he fought for France during the Second World War but later renounced his native land and aspired to be Algerian during the Algerian War of Independence.