A Pan-African Mission

The documentary represents a bridge between Africa and America, between the slave-owning past and the capitalist present, between poverty and wealth. All these contradictions converge in the figure of Anthony Kojo Darden, an African American businessman whose plan is to build a new, independent Liberia. Kojo first comes to Liberia as a missionary worker under the wing of the radical Detroit-based church known as the Shrine of the Black Madonna. But he soon discovers that money isn't everything: despite his lofty visions, he is unable to meet the needs of the locals, who are represented by Preston Papa Jackson, an ambitious social worker who grew up on the streets of Liberia's capital. (One World)