Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was born in Fort-de-France, Martinique. He studied medicine in France, becoming director of the Blida-Joinville (Algeria) psychiatric hospital in 1953 where he collaborated closely with the Algerian National Liberation Front. Expelled from Algeria in 1957, he settled in Tunis to work with the Provisional Government of the Algerian Revolution, being appointed ambassador to Ghana in 1960. His books include L'an V de la révolution algérienne (1959), Les damnés de la terre (1961) and Pour la révolution africaine (1964).