On April 29, "Cemetery Stories: A Rebel Missionary in South Africa" will premier in Olin 149 at Carleton College at 7:15 p.m.
This film was directed/produced by Cherif Keita a Professor of Francophone Literature at Carleton College.
Keita, takes us along his journey on the footsteps of two families, the Wilcoxes and the Dubes, one of white American missionaries, and the other, of Zulus from Inanda, whose friendship in the late 19th century, is an important yet little-known landmark in the struggle for Black liberation and Democracy in South Africa. Along the way, the Keita brings to both of those families some lost pieces of their history and makes them reconnect after ninety years. However, during his eight years of going back and forth between the US and South Africa, Kieta kept wondering why he, a West African Muslim and a professor of Francophone literature, had to be the one passionately piecing together the lost story of two Protestant missionaries in the distant land of South Africa. The answer only comes to him the day he discovers that he had been “chosen” for this surprising quest by two "unappeased" souls in Northfield, the town where he lives in the US.
I have seen the film and it is amazing. The screening is FREE AND OPEN to the public!
On the next night, April 30, the film "The Northfield Arts Guild: 50 Years in the Making" will premier in Viking Theater at St. Olaf College at 6:30 p.m. This past semester two St. Olaf interns working for NHS developed a documentary that chronicles the 50 year history of the Northfield Arts Guild. This event is FREE AND OPEN to the public as well!
If you have any questions on either event please call us at 507-645-9268 or email us.
