| Summary: | Builds on Keïta's film on John L. Dube, first President of South Africa{u2019}s African National Congress. In "Cemetery Stories," Keita pursues the surprising connections between Dube{u2019}s family in South Africa and the Wilcox family of white missionaries from the United States. In 1881, minister William Cullen Wilcox and his wife Ida Belle Clary Wilcox traveled to South Africa. They befriended young John Dube and aided him in his education, both in South Africa and in the United States, and later in his struggle for Black freedom and self-determination. William Wilcox also worked to aid the Zulu people in other ways, including the founding of the Zulu Industrial Improvement Company and the community of Cornfields. To discover the details of the encounter between Dube and Wilcox, Keita reconnects the two families ninety years later and watches as they learn about their common ties.
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