Africa Addio (1966)

Africa Addio (English: Farewell Africa), released in 1966, is an Italian mondo documentary film co-directed, co-edited, and co-written by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco E. Prosperi. Produced by Angelo Rizzoli, it chronicles the turbulent transition from European colonial rule to independence across sub-Saharan Africa during the early 1960s, emphasizing the ensuing violence, political upheaval, and social disintegration.

00:00 Introduction
01:38 Independence in Kenya, Nairobi
02:15 Handing over the colours
06:55 Independence in Tanzania, Dar es-Salaam
09:37 Destruction of colonial goods
10:37 Lesson on the races
14:50 The King's Rifles
19:48 Trial against the Mau Mau
26:24 Amnesty for the Mau Mau
27:08 Selling of the white farms
28:07 The Indian auction of the interior farms
30:22 Agrarian reform in the Kenyan highlands
33:14 The trek back to South Africa from Kenya
36:40 The zebra hunt and poaching in the reserves by car
39:13 The 15-minute safari
40:44 Traditional hunting with a gang of 10,000
43:44 The Wildlife Society
44:41 The rescue of crocodiles
46:10 The Animal Red Cross:
47:19 Ivory poaching seen from a helicopter
47:58 Arrest of a poacher
48:08 Police impoundment of poached animal remains
49:16 An orphan baby zebra airlifted to safety
51:38 The reoccupation of a Portuguese colonial fortress
53:24 Angolan War of Independence
53:59 Fighting and counter-insurgency in the jungle of Angola
55:20 Fighting and explosions on the grasslands of Angola
56:46 Aftermath of the Watusi uprising in Rwanda
57:46 Cleaning up of Watusi corpses in the Kagera River
58:45 Funeral pyre
59:12 The 10-day exodus of Watusi refugees to Uganda
01:00:25 Flying to Zanzibar and attempting to land on an old runway
01:02:44 Flying to Zanzibar with a helicopter and a red flag
01:03:31 Burned-out Arab village
01:04:37 Arabs waiting to be slaughtered
01:05:07 Mass graves and scenes of slaughter
01:05:53 Arabs running to the sea
01:06:35 A beach of corpses
01:07:34 Flamingos, buffaloes, and other scenes of nature
01:12:07 Operation Cropping, the culling of animals for their meat
01:14:06 Murchison Falls National Park, elephant harvest
01:15:26 Queen Elizabeth National Park, hippopotamus harvest
01:16:31 Collecting of the hippo harvest
01:18:08 Destruction of the carcasses
01:18:53 Slaughter Paradise Number 1
01:20:30 Cape Town from the air
01:22:07 Surfing in Cape Town
01:22:51 Cape Town girls
01:25:38 Zulu girls
01:26:45 Zulu party
01:27:58 The modern Zulu
01:30:24 Legion of Decency giving underpants to the wild tribes of the Sudan
01:31:43 The modern climbing lion
01:32:35 Traffic in the bush
01:34:06 Feeding of the lion
01:35:14 Dar es-Salaam - The morgue filled with Arabs
01:36:01 The 1964 army mutiny - People hiding the massacre
01:36:49 Drowning of a Muslim
01:36:57 Destruction of Arab property
01:37:08 The killing of three mutineers
01:37:55 Moïse Tshombe arrives in Leopoldville
01:38:36 The liberation of Stanleyville during Operation Dragon Rouge
01:39:33 The remains of the Simbas
01:40:10 Simbas clean up the dead
01:40:59 The remains of 9 nuns, 7 missionaries, and 4 murdered children
01:41:18 The arrival of rescued Stanleyville hostages in Leopoldville
01:42:27 Dropping food on a mission
01:43:08 Destruction of the mission and the murder of its inhabitants
01:44:57 Relaxing mercenaries at the Alamo
01:47:20 War planning to take Boende
01:47:46 Rhodesian mercenary fighter pilots
01:49:05 The attack on Boende
01:52:06 Rescue of white captives
01:52:35 Captive Simbas
01:53:45 The dead in Boende
01:54:33 Celebrating mercenaries
01:54:48 The plundering by white mercenaries
01:55:02 The plans for Operation OK and the financial backing
01:55:37 Plundering by black soldiers
01:56:20 The forceful ending of plundering
01:56:54 The execution of a Simba rebel
01:57:56 The execution of a Simba who burned 26 children alive
01:58:46 School children in South Africa
01:59:32 Mineworkers learn to use a shovel
02:00:02 Diamond mining
02:00:54 The gold vault in Johannesburg
02:02:02 An overview of Johannesburg
02:02:22 Working in the gold mines
02:03:53 The stock exchange in Johannesburg
02:04:36 Explosions in the mines
02:05:05 Penguins on the Cape of Good Hope

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