Come Back, Africa (1959)
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  • Summary: Zachariah comes to Johannesburg, having been forced out of his KwaZulu village in southeast South Africa by famine. Without the proper papers, he takes the only work available for a man in his position – working in the gold mines near the city. Seeking better than a slave wage, he drifts thrhrough a succession of jobs – domestic servant, garage attendant, waiter, road gang laborer – tormented, insulted, and degraded by his employers who summarily dismiss him because of his ignorance or out of malice. (Milestone Films)… Expand

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  1. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Sam Adams
    Jan 24, 2012
    80
    Come Back, Africa is a work of amazing grace - and a forgotten treasure.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Nick Pinkerton
    Jan 24, 2012
    80
    Rogosin 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.
  3. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Bill Weber
    Jan 25, 2012
    75
    A solid, affecting artifact of the cruelty of late 1950s South Africa, in which music often makes despair and long-suppressed anger bearable.

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