Come Back, Africa
- Original title
- Come Back, Africa (An African Story)
- Year
- 1959
- Running time
- 95 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Miriam Makeba
- Zacharia Mgabi
- Vinah Bendile
- Lewis Nkosi
- Bloke Modisane
- Can Themba
- Myrtle Berman
- George Malebye
- Rams
- Morris Hugh
- Hazel Futa
- Martha
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- Music
- Cinematography
Ernest Artaria, Emil Knebel (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Africa. Racism. Job/Employment. Social Drama
- Synopsis
- Come Back, Africa comprises a storyline acted out by black South Africans, from whose own experiences the film's events are drawn. Desperate to feed his household, Zachariah, a young Zulu, departs his famine-stricken kraal to work in the Johannesburg gold mines. He eventually settles in one of the squalid apartheid-era townships, only to find himself confronted with a barrage of South Africa's infamous pass laws restricting his every move. Zachariah learns that he cannot seek employment without a pass; paradoxically, he cannot obtain a pass without employment. Meanwhile, his family is consistently threatened with exile or imprisonment if they fail to comply with these draconian regulations.
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