‘Come Back, Africa’ (1959) is an explosive film; a strongly political piece, its show the hardship, joy and pain of township life, otherwise closed to the world by the Apartheid regime’s strict hold. Enriched through Lionel Rogosin’s collaboration with the Drum writers Lewis Nkosi and Bloke Modisane on the script, the film possesses a ‘Kafkan sterility’ (Modisane 1990), and tells the archetypal story of the rural man forced toward the city through hardship and the prospect of a better life, something Modisane speaks of with bitterness in his autobiography Blame Me On History (published in 1963).
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Basket weaving in Musanze, Rwanda
Photo by Nico DeBarmore
Panoramic view of Nyiragongo Crater in Democratic Republic of Congo
Photo by Nico DeBarmore
Tea fields in Rwanda (exact location not given)
Photo by Alan du Heaume
Crayfish waiting to be ordered by customers at an open air seafood restaurant, Pointe Noire, Democratic Republic of Congo
Photo by Hennie Niemand
Morning light shining through a forest of gumtrees in Knysna, South Africa
Photo by Mario Moreno
Victoria Falls seen from the Zambia side
Photo by Aubrey Stoll
(Rock to the distant left is Zimbabwe)
Koranic school in Djenne, Mali
Photo by Anthony Pappone
People living in makeshift apartments at an abandoned former presidential palace look out from a balcony in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, April 24, 2012.
Photo by Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters
Groom Mohamed Araphan Kabba and his bride, Fatmata Kabba, celebrate their wedding with guests in Koidu in eastern Sierra Leone, April 21, 2012.
Photo by Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters
A woman uses a net to catch fish in a pool of water near the city of Makeni in Sierra Leone, April 20, 2012.
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A sheet advertising a traditional medicine doctor’s services hangs outside his home by the roadside in the town of Small Sefoda in eastern Sierra Leone, April 22, 2012.
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A miner pans for diamonds in the town of Koidu, Sierra Leone April 21, 2012. (Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters)
Diamonds lie on a table beside a mobile phone in the town of Koidu, in eastern Sierra Leone, April 21, 2012. Fighting in the 1991-2002 civil war was focused on controlling the diamond fields, and the profits from the stones provided the funding to the warring sides.
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Pupils attend a Koranic school in the town of Small Sefoda in eastern Sierra Leone, April 22, 2012.
Photo by Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters