Political Science · International Relations
UGC NET June 2015 Political Science
Frantz Fanon was the first scholar to use the term 'Third World'. To which country he belonged?
AFrance ✓ Correct
BEngland
CAlgeria
DEgypt
Correct answer: (A) France — Frantz Fanon, the thinker the question links with the term 'Third World', belonged to France.
Explanation
★Frantz Fanon, the thinker the question links with the term 'Third World', belonged to France.
★He was born in 1925 in Martinique, then a French colony and today a French overseas department, which made him a French citizen.
★He trained as a psychiatrist in France and wrote all his major works in French.
★Fanon became a leading theorist of decolonisation, especially through the Algerian war of independence.
★His best-known works are 'The Wretched of the Earth' (1961) and 'Black Skin, White Masks' (1952).
★He died in 1961 in the United States, where he had gone for medical treatment.
★Algeria was where he worked and fought, but it was not the country of his birth or citizenship.
★England and Egypt had no connection with Fanon's life or writings.
★The term 'Third World' (tiers monde) is usually credited to the French demographer Alfred Sauvy in 1952, with Fanon giving it sharp political force.
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