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Men of Africa

GenresNot Available
Rating
No Rating
StatusReleased
LanguagesEnglishKiswahili
CountriesUnited Kingdom
Release Date1940-09-01
Runtime28 mins

Overview

A 1940 black and white film, production sponsored by the Colonial Empire Marketing Board. 'The East African colonies are introduced as representative examples of the Colonial Empire. A tribal dance hints at the "life of fear and uncertainty" replaced by British rule, a village's "squalor" the need for continued war on "ignorance, poverty and disease." "Much can be achieved by money and the initiative of the White Man:" film hints at hydro-electric schemes, modern harbours (Mombasa), roads, bridges etc and illustrates in more detail hospital expansion; tsetse fly research and control; relieving malnutrition; agricultural improvement; education (primary school; Makerere College)." - Abridged version of synopsis on colonialfilm.org

Cast & Crew

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Malcolm McDonald

as As Himself

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Leslie Mitchell

as Voiceover/Narration

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