Men of Africa

09/01/1940

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0hr 28min

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STORY

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

    Cast

  • Malcolm McDonald
  • Leslie Mitchell

    Directors

  • Basil Wright
  • Alexander Shaw

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Strand Productions

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • English
  • Swahili