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Come Back, Africa
Directed by
Lionel Rogosin
1959
1h 35m
Documentary
,
Drama
7.1
93%
67%
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Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.
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Cast of Come Back, Africa
Miriam Makeba
Miriam
Vinah Makeba
Vinah
Zachria Makeba
Zachariah
Molly Parkin
Lionel Rogosin
Director / Writer / Producer
Bloke Modisane
Writer
Come Back, Africa Ratings & Reviews
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
The prescience that had him tackling the moral morass of South Africa's system at least two decades before most of the West cared to notice...in 1965 it was doubtless jolting.
Esquire Magazine
Dwight MacDonald
The theme is one that must arouse the liveliest sympathy. Unfortunately it is a poor job. The acting, all amateur, is crude; the structure is episodic; there is no rhythm, no tension, no sustained mood.
Movie Metropolis
Christopher Long
(The film)succeeds simultaneously as activism, as drama, and as a time capsule. It feels like the delicate spell would be broken if a single variable was altered.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
"Come Back, Africa" is most effective as an ethnographic documentary, with cinema verite images of white privilege and black poverty.
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Louis Proyect
A perfect marriage between art and radical politics.
Film Threat
Phil Hall
Miriam Makeba's sensual song performances gives the film a level of vibrancy and passionate energy.
Slant Magazine
Bill Weber
A solid, affecting artifact of the cruelty of late 1950s South Africa, in which music often makes despair and long-suppressed anger bearable.
Village Voice
Nick Pinkerton
Rogosin was showing a vital culture on the brink, at the moment when it was calcifying into the form it would hold for more than three decades to come.
TIME Magazine
TIME Staff
Come Back, Africa is a timely and remarkable piece of cinema journalism: a matter-of-fact, horrifying study of life in the black depths of South African society.
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
What it lacks in dramatic structure, it makes up in pictorial urgency.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Early activist filmmaker Lionel Rogosin was able to film this powerful 1960 apartheid drama on location in South Africa by telling the authorities he was making a musical.
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