List of abbreviations

Introduction

1. The three paradigms: negritude, ethnopsychiatry and African socialism

2. Negritude

3. Ethnopsychiatry and the psychopathology of colonialism: Fanon's account of colonised man in 'Black Skin White Masks'

4. From psychiatric practice to political theory

5. Culture and personality

6. Class conflict and the liberation of Africa

7. The failed revolution

8. The neo-colonial state

9. Towards a critique of Fanon's class analysis

10. Conclusion

Appendixes

Notes

Select bibliography

Index.