MICHAEL MORRIS: Sunak’s rise to power highlights costs of racial and ethnic hostility
Countless good people have been lost to the continent for fear of mistreatment, abuse, violence and intolerance
30 October 2022 - 16:15
I can’t quite recall the circumstances — clandestine, I seem to remember — in which at some point in the late 1970s or early 1980s I watched Africa Addio. Am I deceived in thinking it was banned then? I’m not sure.
Certainly, this controversial 1966 film — later described as a “shockumentary”, and given its title ("Farewell Africa”), considered racist for suggesting that as the continent shrugged off the shackles of European colonialism, brutish violence and heartless indifference were its inevitable replacements — left a vivid impression...
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