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In apartheid-era South Africa, a black farmer leaves the countryside and tries to make a living in Johannesburg.

Cast & Crew

Zacharia Mgabi
Zachariah
Vinah Makeba
Vinah
Miriam Makeba
Miriam
Lewis Nkosi
Lewis
Bloke Modisane
Bloke
Can Themba
Can
Lionel Rogosin
Director
Bloke Modisane
Screenwriter
Lewis Nkosi
Screenwriter
Lionel Rogosin
Screenwriter
Lionel Rogosin
Producer
Lucy Brown
Original Music
Ernest Artaria
Cinematographer
Emil Knebel
Cinematographer
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Critic Reviews for Come Back, Africa

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  • "Come Back, Africa" is most effective as an ethnographic documentary, with cinema verite images of white privilege and black poverty.

    May 25, 2012 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

    Joe Williams

    St. Louis Post-Dispatch

  • 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.

    January 27, 2012 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

    Stephen Whitty

    Newark Star-Ledger

  • A solid, affecting artifact of the cruelty of late 1950s South Africa, in which music often makes despair and long-suppressed anger bearable.

    January 25, 2012 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

    Bill Weber

    Slant Magazine

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

    January 24, 2012 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Sam Adams

    Time Out

  • 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.

    January 24, 2012 | Full Review…

    Nick Pinkerton

    Village Voice

  • 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.

    June 9, 2009 | Full Review…
    TIME Magazine
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