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Frantz Fanon, the freedom fighter

British Library, London

3 July 2025

Frantz Fanon was a revolutionary psychiatrist and anti-colonial writer. At the British Library on 3 July, WritersMosaic marked the centenary of his birth, reflecting on his legacy with writers Ekow Eshun, Clementine E. Burnley, Khaldoon Ahmed, Vayu Naidu and the musician Donna Thompson.

Left-right: Colin Grant, Vayu Naidu, Khaldoon Ahmed, Clementine E Burnley, Ekow Eshun and Donna Thompson. Photo: Missohio Studio

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WritersMosaic returned to the British Library in 3 July for a night of prose and music, marking the centenary of the revolutionary psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon author of Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961). The evening’s host Colin Grant was joined by Ekow Eshun, author of The Strangers, which features a chapter on Fanon, the poet and psychotherapist, Clementine E Burnley, the writer and storyteller Vayu Naidu and the writer, filmmaker and consultant psychiatrist Khaldoon Ahmed. The rising musician Donna Thompson played from her latest EP.

Photos: Missohio Studios

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