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Chérif Keïta’s Latest Documentary Selected to Compete in Pan African Film Festival

February 10, 2009

Chérif Keïta, Professor of French, latest documentary film entitled "CEMETERY STORIES: A Rebel Missionary in South Africa" (edited by Dominic Fucci) is one of 128 films officially selected from a total of 664 entries to compete at the 2009 FESPACO (Pan African Film Festival) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, from February 28 to March 7. It will compete with 30 other documentaries from 16 African countries. Professor Keïta will travel to Ouagadougou with Dominic Fucci and Ms. Fellina Fucci, a student from ArtTech in Northfield. They will be joined by 90-year-old Reverend Jackson Wilcox, from Fresno, California, whose grandparents are the Northfield missionaries featured in this film about the beginnings of the Civil Rights and Democracy struggle in colonial South Africa, between 1881 and 1918.