"Lamont Goes African" opens with Fred and Bubba watching TV as usual, while Lamont intends to bring his life of leisure to avoid working to an end. His Swahili language inspires Fred to answer in pig Latin! A dashiki only earns Lamont more ridicule from his father, no longer answering to the 'slave name' of Lamont, going by the Congolese name Kalunda. His Nigerian sister is Olaiya (Paula Kelly), while 'Oyamo' turns out to be Rollo, which Fred sees through: "if there's some money to be made, Rollo would become an Eskimo!" Olaiya is a lovely lady, who watches and disapproves of the way that 'Kalunda' treats his father, which finally restores Lamont to his old self. Fred winds up wearing the African shirt himself: "I look chic in my dashiki!" Paula Kelly was always a shining light in every film she made.
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