Frantz Fanon was born on 20 July 1925 into a part of the French colonial empire, Martinique. When he was young he attended school in Martinique and would go on to serve in the Free French Army in the Second World War. After his service Fanon studied in France at the University of Lyon completing his studies in psychiatry and medicine. While he was the head of psychiatry at Blida-Joinville Hospital in Algeria he treated both Algerian and French soldiers alike and he began to see the severe effects that colonial violence had on the human psyche. Shortly after he joined the Algerian liberation movement, the National Liberal Front. In 1956 he became the editor of the National Liberal Front’s newspaper, El Moudjahid, and in 1960 he was appointed the ambassador to Ghana by the Algerian liberation movement’s provisional government. This period in Fanon’s life was the most influential and eventually led to his book The Wretched Earth. Fanon wrote The Wretched Earth as a critical analysis of the dehumanizing effects of colonialism and the necessity of violent revolution for the colonized to reclaim their dignity and freedom. It makes one wonder what atrocities he must have seen not only during his time serving in the war, taking care of soldiers (colonizer and colonized just the same), and working with the liberation movement, to move him to write such horrific things. Although his book is quite harsh in nature he does bring much to light about the atmosphere between the colonized and the colonists as well as decolonization and postcolonialism. His book was received widely by postcolonial scholars and his idea that “decolonialism cannot end without the use of violence” was even furthered by the publication of Jean-Paul Sartre’s preface to the book.