Tunisia: A symposium to pay tribute to Frantz Fanon's psychiatric and political legacy

In Tunisia, the work of the psychiatrist and political activist Frantz Fanon remains little known to the general public. Yet, he practiced for four years at Charles Nicolle Hospital, between 1957 and 1961, and wrote a large part of his famous anti-colonialist book Les Damnés de la Terre. On the occasion of his centenary, the Faculty of Medicine of Sousse devoted him, for the first time, to an international and multidisciplinary symposium. The ob…