Come Back, Africa

Come Back, Africa 1959 is the second featurelength film after On the Bowery 1956 written, produced, and directed by American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin.

Come Back, Africa comprises a storyline acted out by black South Africans from whose own experiences the films events are drawn.Desperate to feed his household, Zachariah, a young Zulu, departs his faminestricken kraal to work in the Johannesburg gold mines. He eventually settles in one of the squalid apartheidera townships, only to find himself confronted with a barrage of South Africas infamous pass laws restricting his every move. Zachariah learns that he cannot seek employment without a pass paradoxially, 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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