Isaac Julien, the celebrated black British director, integrates the facts of Fanon’s brief but remarkably eventful life with his long and tortuous inner journey. Julien elegantly weaves together interviews with family members and friends, documentary footage, readings from Fanon’s work and dramatisations of crucial moments in his life.

This film will be preceded by a brief introduction from a participant in the colloquium ‘Fanon: 50 Years Later’ being hosted by the ‘Thinking Africa’ programme of the Department of Political and International Studies at Rhodes University. The keynote lecture for the colloquium will be presented by VY Mudimbe on 6 July at 17:00 in the Blue Lecture Theatre, Eden Grove.