Klein documented the first Panafrican music festival which attracted an array of talent from throughout the continent and provided Westerners and Europeans with their first large-scale exposure to the African sound. Amid the music and dance are interviews with artists (including Miriam Makeba) and political figures (including Eldridge Cleaver, living in Algiers). The festival itself was evidence of an extraordinary third-world cultural resurgence; Klein takes the message beyond the obvious, dusting off the old agit-props to create a film that is very much about neocolonialism and revolt, not-so-far from Vietnam and Eldridge Cleaver's America.