Les Bicots-nègres, vos voisins, a three-hour documentary,[1] was Hondo's second feature-length film and his first colour feature.[2] It opened with a 21-minute monologue in which a man, speaking directly to camera, expounded the history of cinematic representation in Africa.[3] As in his debut film, Soleil O (1969), Hondo addressed the racism encountered by African immigrants in France, and the continuities between slavery and the postcolonial exploitation of migrant labour: