FANON'S ROLE IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PAN-AFRICAN IDENTITY

The Pan-African ideology, which had matured with the ideas of Africans in the diaspora, gradually found a response throughout the continent. As a flower blooming amid concepts such as independence and neocolonialism, this ideology has also included many African and non-African thinkers. Frantz Fanon, a Martinican philosopher, is one of the people who provided an important background to this idea. Fanon, who saw himself as French and then sought to rediscover and redefine his own identity after seeing the French behavior in the French colonies and especially in Algeria, is a remarkable thinker for subsequent African thinkers and researchers. In this article, I will examine the Pan-Africanist perspective that he sprouted with his anti-colonial thoughts.