This Traveltalks episode visits South Africa. This has not aged well. It talks about the natives and the races without talking about the underlying political situation. The tone and the message is very colonial. There is the gold smelting. It's always nice to see gold. Finally, there is the tribal song and dance. They talk about detribalized natives and it's all very tone-deaf.
History has not been kind to this episode, but it is fascinating to see the old colonial sensibility in this. They are very much rooting for the 'civilizing the savage' and the white settlers have modernized this tribal lands.
History has not been kind to this episode, but it is fascinating to see the old colonial sensibility in this. They are very much rooting for the 'civilizing the savage' and the white settlers have modernized this tribal lands.
