Concerning Violence: Nine Scenes From the Anti-Imperialism Self-Defense, a new documentary by the Swedish director, Göran Olsson, who gave us the excellent Black Power Mixtape, takes us back to the era of Frantz Fanon, the post–World War Two moment that saw an explosion of national independence movements in Africa and Asia. Fanon was a Martinique-born black psychiatrist who, in a nutshell, thought that the mental health of oppressed Africans would improve if they hurt, beat, bodily harmed their white oppressors. Fanon died young. But his books, one of which, The Wretched of the Earth, looms in the background of the documentary (its name is taken from the book's first chapter), inspired a generation of African intellectuals and revolutionaries. The whole world has Che Guevara; black Africa has Fanon.

Enter the black American rapper and singer Lauryn Hill. We all know she has been through a lot lately. We also know she is a complicated human being. What many of you may not know, however, is that she is the narrator of Olsson's Concerning Violence. You can hear her in the trailer. She has a voice that expresses all of her strengths and weaknesses, her beauty and her outrage. Few are as bold and as vulnerable as Hill. I can't wait for this movie.