- Lauryn Hill
- Narrator in English version
- Kati Outinen
- Narrator in Finnish version
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- Self - professor, Columbia University
- Gaetano Pagano
- Self - reporter
- Tonderai Makoni
- Self - PhD
- Timothy
- Self - white Rhodesian racist's servant
- Robert Mugabe
- Self - Zimbabwe African National Union
- Robert Jackson
- Self - Liberian labour activist
- Olle Wijkström
- Self - executive director, Liberian-American-Swedish Minerals Company
- William Tubman
- Self - president of Liberia
- Sören Lagergren
- Self - Liberian-American-Swedish Minerals Company
- Simão Elias
- Self - The Mozambique Liberation Front
- António de Spínola
- Self - military governor of Portuguese Guinea
- Amilcar Cabral
- Self - founder of Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde
- Thomas Sankara
- Self - president of Burkina Faso
