Africa Addio (lit. 'Goodbye Africa' or 'Farewell Africa'; also known as Africa: Blood and Guts in the United States and Farewell Africa in the United Kingdom) is a 1966 Italian mondo documentary film co-directed, co-edited, and co-written by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco E. Prosperi, with music by Riz Ortolani. Jacopetti and Prosperi had gained fame (along with co-director Paolo Cavara) as the directors of Mondo Cane in 1962.

Africa Addio documents the end of European colonial rule in Africa during the 1950s and 1960s, and the violence and chaos that followed. The film was a huge success, which ensured the viability of the so-called "Mondo film" genre, a series of "shockumentaries"—documentaries featuring sensational topics. The film received both criticism and praise due to its controversial content, but is nevertheless considered a very important film in the history of documentary filmmaking.

Many commentators, however, accused the film of racism and misrepresentation. Jacopetti and Prosperi responded to critics of the film by defending their intentions.
Film directors Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas harshly criticized the film in their manifesto Toward a Third Cinema (1970), calling Jacopetti a fascist. They argued that in the film, man is “viewed as a beast” and is “turned into an extra who dies so Jacopetti can comfortably film his execution.”
Film critic Roger Ebert, in a scathing 1967 review of the shortened American version of the film, called it “racist” and stated that it “slanders a continent.” He drew attention to the opening narration: “Europe has abandoned her baby,” the narrator laments, “just when it needs her the most.” Who has taken over, now that the colonialists have left? The advertising spells it out for us: "Raw, wild, brutal, modern-day savages!"

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Arthur Goldberg condemned the film as "grossly distorted" and "socially irresponsible," noting the protests of five African UN delegates. In West Germany, a protest movement against the film emerged after Africa Addio was approved by the state-controlled film rating board. The protest was chiefly organized by the Socialist German Student Union (SDS) and groups of African students. In West Berlin, the distributor withdrew from showing the film after a series of demonstrations and damage to cinemas.

In the 2003 documentary The Godfathers of Mondo, Prosperi argues that the criticism stemmed from the fact that “the public was not ready for this kind of truth.” Jacopetti states that the film “was not a justification of colonialism, but a condemnation of leaving the continent in a miserable condition.”

I apologize for displaying so much information on the screen, but I don’t want a single detail to be missed. I just read the synopsis, and oh my God! I knew that black Africans were savages, but I never imagined they could reach this level of savagery and such senseless cruelty!
I feel so sorry for all those animals killed by these black-skinned monsters. I’d really like to be able to download the uncut original movie, cut out and extract interesting clips, and post them here. Obviously, I’d only post the humans dying, not the poor elephants and hippos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_Addio

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