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This article appraises the book "Black Soul, White Artifact Fanon's Clinical Psychology and Social Theory," by J. McCullough. McCullough aims to show the theoretical links between Fanon's psychiatric and ethnological writings on the one hand and his political analyses of decolonization and the post-colonial state on the other. He succeeds in this synthesis better than any existing study, most of which focus mainly either on psychoanalysis or political theory, but not both. The book's argument is usually careful, albeit repetitious; possibly the section on intellectuals and problems of revolutionary leadership could have been handled more clearly.