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Peter Chilson's "Collateral Damage: The Map Bomb," is a critical, literary look at the history of colonialism in Africa.

The 25th Ji.hlava IDFF, a key European documentary film festival, kicks-off in two weeks! Festival visitors can look forward to three hundred films in...

Film still: African Apocalypse by Femi Nylander and Rob Lemkin. A trip to Niger on the trail of colonial crimes was an eye-opener for a young British-Nigerian poet. At the end of the 19th century, European powers came together to carve up the great African cake. One of the pieces of land allotted to the French was an area branching into the Sahara Desert in what was to become Niger. My film African Apocalypse (showing at the Docville Festival in Leuven 10,16,19 June) follows the road crea...

Femi Nylander on African Apocalypse: my journey into today’s beating heart of darkness Femi Nylander At the end of the 19th century, European powers came together to carve up the great African cake. One of the pieces of land allotted to the French was an area branching into the Sahara Desert in what was to become Niger. My BBC Two film African Apocalypse follows the road created by the French invasion of 1898-99 in which a French colonial officer, Captain Paul Voulet, estab...

A BBC documentary is set to suggest Kurtz - later played by Marlon Brando in the 1979 American war film Apocalypse Now - may have been based on captain Paul Voulet (pictured).

This article is more than 1 month old Filming for the BBC in Niger, we were told by many Nigeriens that we were the first ever to come and ask about their history ‘There must be a process where those affected can give evidence on the crimes that initiated and sustained colonialism.’ A still from African Apocalypse. Photograph: African Apocalypse ‘There must be a process where those affected can give evidence on the crimes that initiated and sustained colonialism.’ A still from African A...

Will Macrons new commission face up to all of Frances colonial atrocities? Femi Nylander and Rob Lemkin During the French presidential campaign of 2017, Emmanuel Macron told a young Algerian that colonialism was “a crime against humanity”. His mailbox was immediately filled with angry letters from former French-Algerian settlers. A few weeks later, he retracted his remarks. “I’m sorry for wounding you, causing pain. I did not want to offend you,” he assured the colonis...