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Cemetery stories - A rebel missionnary in South Africa

  • Cemetery stories - A rebel missionnary in South Africa
Genre : Historical
Type : Documentary
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Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2008
Format : Mid-length
Running time : 58 (in minutes)

The director, a West African who resides in the US, takes us along his eight-year journey on the footsteps of two families, the Wilcoxes and the Dubes, one of white American missionaries, and the other, Zulus from Inanda, whose friendship in the late 19th century, stands as a major landmark in the struggle for Black liberation and Democracy in South Africa. Along the way, the scholar-director brings to both families some lost pieces of their history and makes them reconnect after losing touch with each other for ninety years.

By M. Cherif Keita (2008, 58 min., Mali/US)

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2009 | 4th Real Life Documentary Film Festival | ACCRA, Ghana | www.ka-yelema.org
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