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Assegai To Javelin

1955

Assegai to Javelin is a propaganda film with a narrative that suggests how the Bantu people of South Africa took part in a variety of sports in order to maintain the physical fitness which was so important to them as “warrior nations”. Essentially, the process of “taming of warlike tribes through benevolent white rule”.
Place discussed
South Africa
Published in
Vancouver, BC