"Under the patronage of the ethnographic film committee of the Museum of Man" "The African Cinema Group presents" "Africa-on-Seine" "Before the sun and our elders we would shout our independence." "Young, carefree, ignorant of the world around us." "Knowing nothing but our little corner of Africa." "We didn't know other regions existed, where other little black, yellow and white children played and wrestled in other rivers." "We had our Niger, our sun, our forest." "They were good times." "The time of the kingdom of children." "Children of the whole planet." "Long ago..." "What does time matter!" "We had to grow up, leave home for Paris capital of the world, capital of Black Africa." "Here, mists have replaced the sun." "machine noises those of men of nature." "But Paris is the centre of hope, all hope." "Paris is also the city of promises made by young men to help their country." "Paris where are your gold-paved streets from our nursery books?" "The streets have become" "Boulevard Saint-Germain" "Rue de l'Odéon la Maison Molière" "Place de la Comédie." "Where I found, one morning, civilization at the school of outstretched hands." "Among these streets are Rue de Médicis" "Rue Soufflot the Latin Quarter home to students" " O, illustrious dead of the Panthéon - who are found when they can be found, in stuffy hostels" "with no sun often two to a room." "Paris, days without bread." "Paris, days without hope." "Paris, streets of gold in fairy tales for black children." "Paris, where solitude mingles with perpetual fraternity." "Paris, incomparable variety." "Paris, burgeoning fraternity." "And may they turn, may they turn for you, children, the carousels of hope of a bright future." "ln going to discover Paris, going in search of Africa-on-Seine," "we have the hope of finding ourselves, the hope of meeting up," "the hope of finding civilization." "Salute the genius of men of liberty, of equality." "Salute the peaceful victories of peaceful men." "Salute all the monuments of Paris." "Witnesses of glories past and present." "The world, in the Latin Quarter assembles itself assimilates itself to try to melt, in the sun of love" "the ancient barriers of prejudice and monuments of hate in order to bring closer, in order to understand despite the falsifications that men have wrought on the history of good peoples." "Calculated solidarity and a fraternity of principle, without warmth" "make way for happiness shared, make way for earthly foods." "The fruits of the earth for all the fruits of culture for all." "And it's in this old quarter of letters and science" "that the wind of hope blows, the wind of happiness and of love." "And evenings, together at feasts of friendship," "the belly full, the face radiant the heart open and the arms outstretched despite men's machinations." "And, still together, black friends and yellow friends, black friends and white friends" "in our dances of love heart to heart side by side, beyond the darkness, we are winning the battle of light." "Before God and before others."