Men of Africa

A 1940 black and white film production sponsored by the Colonial Empire Marketing Board The East African colonies are introduced as representative examples of the Colonial Empire A tribal dance hints at the life of fear and uncertainty replaced by British rule a villages squalor the need for continued war on ignorance poverty and disease Much can be achieved by money and the initiative of the White Man film hints at hydroelectric schemes modern harbours Mombasa roads bridges etc and illustrates in more detail hospital expansion tsetse fly research and control relieving malnutrition agricultural improvement education primary school Makerere College Abridged version of synopsis on colonialfilmorg