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, established the Southern border of the country.