African Apocalypse

African Apocalypse is a 2020 documentary film directed and produced by Rob Lemkin. It features Femi Nylander and was produced by Geoff Arbourne and David Upshal. The film portrays a journey from Oxford, England to Niger on the trail of a colonial killer called Captain Paul Voulet. Voulet’s descent into barbarity mirrors that of Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Nylander discovers Voulet’s massacres happened at exactly the same time that Conrad wrote his book in 1899. In Niger, Nylander meets Nigerien communities along the route of Voulet’s trail who have lived with the legacy of his destruction.

African Apocalypse
Directed by
  • Rob Lemkin
Written by
  • Femi Nylander
  • Rob Lemkin
Produced by
Starring
  • Femi Nylander
Cinematography
  • Claude Garnier
Edited byDavid Charap
Music byTunde Jegede Sunara Begum
Production
companies
Inside Out Films and LemKino Pictures
Release date
  • 16 October 2020 (2020-10-16) (LFF)
Running time
88 minutes
Countries
  • Niger
  • United Kingdom
Languages
  • English
  • French
  • Hausa

It was broadcast by the BBC in May 2021 as an episode of the Arena documentary series.[1]

Film festivals

African Apocalypse premiered at the 64th BFI London Film Festival on October 16, 2020. The film competed in the Debate strand.[2]

References
  1. "Arena: African Apocalypse". BBC. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  2. Nwokorie, Lynn (16 October 2020). "African Apocalypse". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 8 October 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
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