Colonialism, the political theorist Frantz Fanon wrote in 1962, “is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence.” Hugely influential yet largely forgotten, Fanon better expressed the mechanics of global oppression and resistance than any 20th-century thinker. Göran Hugo Olsson structures this immersion into the African decolonization movements of the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s with excerpts from Fanon and, as with his Black Power Mixtape (T/F 2011), illustrates it using extraordinary footage mined from Swedish TV archives. Rebels prepare to ambush a Portuguese military base; a young woman and child, post amputation, reunite; starving villagers await redemption that will never come; and revolutionary icons Thomas Sankara and Amílcar Cabral forcefully denounce the immoral system they are fighting against. Concerning Violence inverts the war film, revealing the ideology that too often remains invisible beneath the human wreckage. (JS)