ABSTRACT
The philosophy of liberation shares the concerns of the wider discipline, while specifically grappling with the implications for truth and freedom in an environment of power relations structured by imperialism and colonialism. This chapter discusses what Frantz Fanon has to say about the meaning of life under four headings – his biography and its implications for questions of identity, the influence of negritude on his conception of humanism, his views on violence and revolution, and his continuing relevance. Fanon was a writer, theorist, psychologist, psychiatrist, political philosopher, and revolutionary. Fanon expanded and exported the black consciousness to Africa, especially in regard to understanding the struggle of African people against colonial domination and global capitalism. Philosophers see their task as the search for truth. Fanon was consumed with the task of unmasking the true structure of the colonial enterprise, exposing its contradictions, and proposing more human alternatives.
