Come Back, Africa Reviews

While the sights and the sounds aren't enough to constitute a great movie in and of themselves, they do result in a fascinating document.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Come Back, Africa is a work of amazing grace-and a forgotten treasure.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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.

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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.

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What it lacks in dramatic structure, it makes up in pictorial urgency.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Its power comes from the location filming of the township.

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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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