Africa’s Struggle for Liberation and Decolonizing our Minds and our Community
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A Screening and Discussion of the Documentary:
Concerning Violence: Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defense
"Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence.”
An exploration of the revolutionary movements in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s, based on Frantz Fanon’s 1961 work The Wretched of the Earth, with archival news-footage and interviews taking us on a whistle-stop tour of colonialism across African countries (Angola, Zimbabwe, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau among others), interpolated with readings by Lauryn Hill.
Through it all, the changing nature of violence (destructive, cleansing, inevitable) is unravelled in illuminating, harrowing form.
"Concerning Violence" is a powerful commentary on the history of colonialism and struggles for self-determination, whose echoes remain with us today.
Followed by discussion led by:
Nkenge Cunningham and
Yaa Adenike Cunningham
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