Deborah Wyrick, PhD. Fanon For Beginners opens with a biography, following Fanon from his birthplace of Martinique to his heroic involvement in the fights for Algerian independence and African decolonization. After a brief discussion of Fanon’s political and cultural influences, the main section of the book covers the three principal stages of Fanon’s thought: “The Search for Black Identity,” “The Struggle Against Colonialism,” “The Process of Decolonization.”