Paul Robeson as John 'Johnny' Zinga

Elisabeth Welch as Ruth Zinga

Esme Percy as Gabriel Donozetti

Robert Adams as Monty

James Solomon as Native Leader

Tony Wane as Mandingo (as Ecce Homo Toto)

Ronald Simpson as Mr. Blane, the Pianist

George Mozart as Bert Puddick

Jenny Dean as Marian

Joan Fred Emney as Nell Puddick

Bernard Ansell as Sir James Pyrie (as Bernard Ansell)

Johnnie Schofield as

Ambrose Manning as Trader

Arthur Elliott as - (as Honorable Arthur Eliot)

Cornelia Smith as Queen Zinga (as Miss C. Smith)

Sydney Benson as Gate-Keeper (uncredited)

Cathleen Cavanagh as Woman (uncredited)

Alf Goddard as Alf, the Bartender (uncredited)

Will Hammer as Potman (uncredited)

Arthur Williams as Endobo, the Witch Doctor