Come Back, Africa

Come Back, Africa is the second feature-length film written, produced, and directed by American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. The film had a profound effect on African Cinema, and remains of great historical and cultural importance as a document preserving the unique heritage of the townships in South Africa in the 1950s. After the Second World War, Rogosin made a vow to fight racism and fascism wherever he found it and decided to make a film that would expose the apartheid system to the world. He made his first film On the Bowery (1956) as a way to prepare for making Come Back, Africa. Rogosin and his wife Elinor arrived in South Africa in May 1957 and spent six months preparing and getting to know the people and country....