AFRICAN LEADERS: FRANZ FANON

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Excerpt from the film AFRICAN LEADERS: FRANZ FANON a Facets Video release. Directed by Cheikh Djemai. For more info or to order this film, visit http://www.facetsdvd.com/ProductDetai... or contact sales@facets.org. Facets Multi-Media is a non-profit media arts organization founded in Chicago in 1975, and dedicated to making cinema accessible to all through film preservation, distribution, presentation, and education. For more information, visit http://www.facets.org The documentary Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His Work (Algeria/France, 52 mins.), director Cheikh Djemai uncovered and interviewed scores of former associates of Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist, philosopher and political leader. He became a spokesman for the Algerian revolution against French colonialism, and as the author of Black Skin, White Masks, Fanon documented the effects of colonialism and racism on the people of colonized countries.