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Honouring Frantz Fanon: Screening of 'Concerning Violence' at UWC
A screening and discussion event of 'Concerning Violence' will be hosted by Adwa movement and the University of Western Cape's student organisation, HIM Society, on Tuesday at the Bellville campus.
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A screening and discussion event of 'Concerning Violence' will be hosted by Adwa movement and the University of Western Cape's student organisation, HIM Society, on Tuesday at the Bellville campus.
The screening is set to mark the centenary year of the birth of Frantz Fanon.
The organisers said that even though Fanon's scholarship has had an enormous influence on postcolonial/decolonial studies, political ideas, historical materialism, and the humanities at scale, the philosophical undertones of his work remain unclear.
The screening of Göran Olsson's documentary 'Concerning Violence' will help bring engagement on the past, present, and future of pan-African decolonial thinking and what Fanon envisioned with the ideal of a new humanism.
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'Concerning Violence' is a 2014 documentary film that uses spectacular archival footage which tells the story of the African anti-colonial movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
Tuesday's film screening will begin at 1.30pm, with discussion on the film set to start from 3pm, focusing on 'The relevance of Frantz Fanon's philosophy from the colonial period to the present day'.
A screening and discussion event of 'Concerning Violence' will be hosted on Tuesday at the Bellville campus.
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Former UWC SRC president and pan-African researcher Azania Simthandile Tyhali will deliver a keynote reflecting on Fanon's work, legacy, and ideals in the context of decolonisation, followed by a Q&A.
The discussion will be moderated by Ras Hein, former UWC student and HIM Society alumni coordinator. The initiative is free of charge.
The Adwa movement is a pan-African cultural heritage community movement established in 2015 as a platform engaged in an ongoing struggle to build a decolonial society through advancing the three-fold cause of repatriation-reparation-restitution. It confronts its coloniality through continuous praxis.
HIM society is a student structure at UWC that has existed on the campus for over two decades. Its office is a hub for pan-Africanists, critical thinkers, and the black radical tradition in general and RasTafari students in particular.
The film 'Concerning Violence' is based on the essay De la violence (On Violence) by Fanon, from his 1961 book 'Les damnés de la terre (The Wretched of the Earth)'.
Fanon was a psychiatrist born in Martinique and educated in France, whose thought has had a wide influence on anti-colonial and feminist movements as well as on post-colonial studies.
His work focuses in particular on the psychological effects of colonisation and the possibilities for liberation. Fanon worked in an Algerian hospital during the Algerian-French war and died of cancer in 1961, aged only 36.
The languages of the film are English, French, Swedish, and Portuguese, and the film is presented with English subtitles. The film is narrated by American singer and actress Lauryn Hill.
