The Africans: Tools of Exploitation. Regards the deliberate and subtle methods of economic exploitation in post-colonial Africa. Edited unmixed program originally shot on film.
Archival B&W clip of KING LEOPOLD of Belgium.
DO NOT USE Archival feature film of African men on canoe trip up the Congo river.
Mr. Mazrui, standing near a Colonial prison building in the Congo, discusses the brutality of colonial oppression.
Archival film of Africans under forced labor, building a Colonial railroad while colonial masters watch passively. The slaves hammer and saw and lift and carry and chop in strict unison.
DO NOT USE: Still of boy slaves with amputated hands or feet, given as punishment for not working hard enough;
Archival film of British Colonials in pith helmets directing laborers, MS British Colonials keeping journal logs.
DO NOT USE: Still of female slave laborer w/amputated foot.
Archival film of African slave laborers using axes to chop away at log. CU British Colonial with pith helmet blowing whistle.
DO NOT USE: Still of young boy w/mputated hand. Still of British Colonial w/ male slaves.