Table of Contents

List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The three paradigms: negritude, ethnopsychiatry and African socialism; 2. Negritude; 3. Ethnopsychiatry and the psychopathology of colonialism: Fanon's account of colonised man in 'Black Skin White Masks'; 4. From psychiatric practice to political theory; 5. Culture and personality; 6. Class conflict and the liberation of Africa; 7. The failed revolution; 8. The neo-colonial state; 9. Towards a critique of Fanon's class analysis; 10. Conclusion; Appendixes; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

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These papers examine the intellectual legacy of the political psychologist Frantz Fanon.