Machine derived contents note: 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