Concerning Violence

For those numbed to the horrors perpetrated by man against man, Concerning Violence is an adrenaline shot to the heart, a controversial, illustrated manifesto based on philosopher/revolutionary Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched Of The Earth. Though he died before he could see the publishing and subsequent banning of his seminal anti-colonial text, Fanon’s writings contributed and incited the African liberation struggles of the 60s, 70s and 80s, a time of bloodshed which Fanon predicted as essential in turning the violence of colonialism against itself. Subtitled as ‘Nine Scenes From Anti-Imperialist Self-Defense’, Göran Hugo Olsson (The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975), has created another masterpiece of archival research, unearthing footage filmed across the continent, which though forgotten has lost none its urgent potency. Preceded by a prologue by Gayatri Chakraverty Spivak and narrated by Lauryn Hill, Concerning Violence matches it’s source
text in ferocity, divisiveness and deep concern for mankind.