It displayed signs of future potentials which made it become associated with anti colonialism and social change in the newly emerging independence Ghana.
[4] The film tells the story of a boy called Kumasenu who moves to the city of Accra from a small fishing village, encouraged by his cousin Agboh's exaggerated tales of the wonders of city life.
Hungry, he steals bread and is caught by police, but is rescued by a doctor and his wife, who find him work.
[5] Monthly Film Bulletin was less impressed, finding it "vague and sentimental" though praising it as a starting point for African cinema.
"Modernity and Danger: The Boy Kumasenu and the Work of the Gold Coast Film Unit" (PDF).