The Africans: Tools of Exploitation. Regards the deliberate and subtle methods of economic exploitation in Africa in post-colonial times. Edited unmixed program originally shot on film.
EST shots of an Ivory Coast village. LSs old fortresses used in Slave trade.
MS/CUs Africans in an open air market; MS rusted European cannons. CU of the face of a small child.
DO NOT USE: Photograph of African boy on slave market.
MSs of a cell used to hold slaves before the Atlantic passage.
DO NOT USE: Illustrations of slave trade.
Host Ali Mazrui walks the battlements of an old fortress in Ghana that served as a "trading factory" of slaves.
DO NOT USE: Still of African man in bondage (slave trade).
MS/GV slave cell. Host Mr. Mazrui, walking in a former slave cell, describes the squalid and brutal conditions of the slaves; says that despite slavery practices in Africa, the Europeans reached unprecedented levels of cruelty, brutality, and simple volume. MS pan of stone cell wall and floor.
DO NOT USE: More illustrations of the slave trade.
GV Host Ali Mazrui in dark slave cell holding a lantern talking about the powerful emotions he feels as a modern man reflecting on the horrors of the conditions for the people who once inhabited the dark realities of slavery.
DO NOT USE: More illustrations of the slave trade.