Africa Addio

• Many of the scenes (however true) appear to contain gratuitous violence. That is, the excessive violence might be for shock value or considered as historic archive.

• Charges of racism:

"On the evening of 2 August 1966 SDS students and members of African student groups held a demonstration at the Astor cinema on the Kurfürstendamm against the film ''Africa Addio'' by the Italian director Gualtiero Jacopetti . The film had already been banned as racist in Italy and England, and the left-liberal newspaper Der Abend described Jacopetti as a well known ‘racist, colonialist fascist’."¹

• Like many movies, this one has been viciously cut. The original portrayed roughly even blame for the events between the native Africans and European colonial powers. This balance was not always maintained in the cut versions, however, such as the 1970 USA release with 57 minutes cut.

• The uncut movie, with English subtitles: (Warning: contains graphics scenes of violence)


• IMDB review


• A review by Conrad H. Roth