Lauryn Hill

as Narrator in English version

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

as Self - Professor, Columbia University

Gaetano Pagano

as Self - Reporter (voice) (archive footage)

Tonderai Makoni

as Self - PhD (archive footage)

Robert Mugabe

as Self - ZANU (archive footage)

Olle Wijkström

as Self - CEO Lamco (archive footage)

William Tubman

as Self - President of Liberia (archive footage)

Amílcar Cabral

as Self - Leader of PAIGC, Guinea-Bissau (archive footage)

Thomas Sankara

as Self - President of Burkina Faso (archive footage)

António de Spínola

as Self - Military Governor of Guinea-Bissau (Archive Footage)

Kati Outinen

as Narrator in Finnish version