The Sky and the Forest (1948)

They came to violate Africa in their different ways, the Arab slave-trader and the white colonist.The Arab came with the whip and the yoke, seeking slaves for wealthy households and the harems of the East.The European brought the gun and the bible, to exploit - but to civilize too.To the black peoples of Central Africa, both were alien, as strange and cruel as hostile creatures from another planet. Some natives, like Loa, womaniser, tyrant, proud chief of his people, tasted danger and bondage - and survived to organize a ruthless resistance.Against the brooding, timeless backdrop of the sky and the forest they met - in a bloody and merciless struggle for supremacy...