Frantz Fanon has been and continues to be an inspiration to the part of the world which still yearns for genuine liberation, and which wants to rid itself of all the pathological attachments of subjection. Fanon assumed multiple identities in one persona in his struggle against subjection. In this multiple persona, Fanon has been hailed as a revolutionary, thinker, activist, writer, psychiatrist, intellectual and theorist. What this article seeks to explain and defend is Fanon’s persona as the philosopher, and in particular, as the African existentialist philosopher. This means that Fanon is the embodiment of thought, and is concerned with the existential conditions of black subjects who are at the receiving end of subjection contains diagnosis how they must pursue the cause of liberation. There is a need to position Fanon as the Africana existential philosopher, and it should be taken seriously to account for the existential conditions of black subjects.
