- Director: Walter Futter
- Release Year: 1930
- Production Country: United States
- Language: English
- Run Time: 50 minutes
Africa Speaks!
- Era: 20th Century
- Regions: Africa, Central Africa, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eastern Africa, Kenya, United Republic of Tanzania, Uganda, Western Africa, Nigeria
- Subject: Colonialism
- Film Type: Documentary
Description
Africa is a land of many wonders, filled with people and animals unlike any that Europe and the United States have seen. Filmmaker Paul Hoefler spent a year travelling through central Africa, recording the people and their world in order to show the western world what he found so fascinating about the "Dark Continent."
Themes
Ethnography, Colonialism, Belgian Congo (1908 – 1960), Colony and Protectorate of Kenya (1920 – 1963), French Equatorial Africa (1910 – 1958), Protectorate of Uganda (1894 – 1962), Mbenga, Maasai, Cultural appropriation, Imperialism, Indigenous peoples, Patriarchy, Film history, Ecosystems
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