"Free Africa! is a documentary about both the image of Africa in Germany and about Germany's role in the socalled "Black Continent." The film describes German politics pertaining to Africa since World War Two through the use of popular representations of Africa and common perceptions  and misperceptions  of the life of its peoples. It explores the ways in which Germans in the East and West have viewed and visualized Africa, and it reveals what Europeans may have tried to find in a real and an imaginary Africa over the last fifty years."