THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation - Rubber
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation - Rubber
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.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation - Rubber
Archival newsreel of the Firestone Company setting up rubber plantations in Liberia. The newsreel makes Firestone out to have purely noble intentions. Shots of work on a rubber plantation. A man taps the trees to gather the rubber sap.American business officers shakes hands with local man. VO- discussion of the paltry wages paid by multinational corporations' actions in Africa. Liberia is now an oppressive state dominated by the multinationals.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation - Rubber
Contemporary color shots of black man cutting rubber trees and collecting buckets of rubber sap at rubber plantation.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation - Rubber
MSs Africans hauling buckets of sap to a shed where there haul is totalled and weighed. VO notes that the multinationals' relation to Africa is only to exploit raw materials and that finished goods are never made in Africa by Africans but must be re-imported for profit by the companies.