Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.... (Full plot summary below)
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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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| Movie MetropolisChristopher 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-DispatchJoe Williams"Come Back, Africa" is most effective as an ethnographic documentary, with cinema verite images of white privilege and black poverty. |
| Newark Star-LedgerStephen WhittyWhile the sights and the sounds aren't enough to constitute a great movie in and of themselves, they do result in a fascinating document. |
| Slant MagazineBill WeberA solid, affecting artifact of the cruelty of late 1950s South Africa, in which music often makes despair and long-suppressed anger bearable. |
| Time OutSam AdamsCome Back, Africa is a work of amazing grace-and a forgotten treasure. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsLouis ProyectA perfect marriage between art and radical politics. |
| Village VoiceNick PinkertonRogosin 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. |
| User ReviewMichael TA fascinating look at South Africa in 1959, with a powerful & disturbing finale. |
| User ReviewDave J"Come Back, Africa" is something of a historical curio. Filmed in secret in Apartheid-era South Africa in 1959, the film follows Zachariah(Zacharia Mgabi), fresh from Zululand, who is looking for work. First, he ends up at a gold mine where he has no experience but receives brief training before being sent into the mines. His intent is to work in Johannesburg where he can establish a home for his family. To such ends, he asks for help from his supervisor but his first job in the city as an in-house servant ends badly. All of that may be news to those watching in 1959, especially with its references to the African National Congress, and other South African political discussions of the day in response to restrictions on the African population. But to those of us watching in 2012 after the huge amount that has already been written on the subject, there is nothing new here in the movie's episodic structure with its reliance on non-professional actors with occasional musical interludes. Plus, the ending is more than a little sudden. |
