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Frantz Fanon
1925–1961 · Martinique / Algeria / West Africa
Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) was a political activist, psychiatrist, philosopher, and writer from Martinique, a French Caribbean island. He worked as a doctor in Algeria during…
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"I am not a prisoner of History. I should not seek there for the meaning of my destiny."
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Nadia Murad
born 1993 · Iraq
Nadia Murad (born 1993) is a Yazidi human rights activist from the Sinjar region of northern Iraq. In 2014, when she was twenty-one years old,…
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"I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine."
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