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A Good Man in Africa is a Sud africain film of genre Drama directed by Bruce Beresford released in USA on 8 september 1994 with Colin Friels

A Good Man in Africa (1994)

A Good Man in Africa
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Released in USA 8 september 1994
Length 1h34
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Comedy
Rating50% 2.503942.503942.503942.503942.50394

A Good Man in Africa is a 1994 film, based on William Boyd's 1981 novel A Good Man in Africa and directed by Bruce Beresford.

Synopsis

Morgan Leafy is a British diplomat and works in the small African state of Kinjanja, in the process of decolonisation. Arthur Fanshawe, a new member of the Commission, brings Leafy the news that oil has just been discovered in Kinjanja. For the British to obtain the benefits of such unexpected news, they must maintain good relations with the man who appears likely to be the next president of Kinjanja, Sam Adekunle. But a diplomatic crisis occurs: a woman dies at the High Commission and the British want to prolong the native burial honors for several days.

Actors

Colin Friels

(Morgan Leafy, 1st Secretary of the High Commissioner)
Joanne Whalley

(Celia Adekunle)
Sean Connery

(Dr. Alex Murray)
John Lithgow

(Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner)
Louis Gossett Jr.

(Prof. Sam Adekunle)
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