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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 created by the French invasion of 1898-99 in which a French colonial officer, Captain Paul Voulet, est...

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, established the Southern border of the country. The film brings the past up to date. It’s a personal jo...

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).