Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin shekarun 1960, Riefenstahl ya zama mai sha'awar Afirka daga Ernest Hemingway "Green Hills of Africa" da kuma daga hotunan George Rodger. Ta ziyarci Kenya a karo na farko a 1956 kuma daga baya Sudan, inda ta ɗauki hotunan kabilun Nuba waɗanda ta zauna tare da su, suna koyo game da al'adunsu don ta iya ɗaukar hoto da sauƙi. Kodayake aikin fim dinta game da bautar zamani mai taken "Die Schwarze Fracht" ("The Black Cargo") bai taɓa kammalawa ba, Riefenstahl ya sami damar sayar da hotunan daga tafiyar zuwa mujallu a sassa daban-daban na duniya. Yayin da take neman wuraren harbi, ta kusan mutuwa daga raunin da ta samu a hatsarin mota. Bayan ta farka daga coma a asibitin Nairobi, ta gama rubuta rubutun, amma ba da daɗewa ba mazauna yankin da ba su da haɗin kai, rikicin Suez Canal
da kuma mummunar yanayi. A ƙarshe, an dakatar da aikin fim ɗin. Duk da haka, an ba Riefenstahl izinin zama ɗan ƙasar Sudan saboda ayyukanta ga ƙasar, ta zama baƙon farko da ya karɓi fasfo na Sudan.