by Martin Evans, OUP Blog
Frantz Fanon died of leukaemia on 6 December 1961 at the National
Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA where he had sought
treatment for his cancer. At Fanon’s request, his body was returned to
Algeria and buried with full military honours by the Algerian National
Army of Liberation, shortly after the publication of his most
influential work, The Wretched of the Earth.