African Apocalypse

2020 film

Rob Lemkin

Written by

Femi Nylander
Rob Lemkin

Produced by

Geoff Arbourne Rob Lemkin David Upshal

Starring

Femi Nylander

Cinematography

Claude Garnier

Edited byDavid CharapMusic byTunde Jegede Sunara Begum

Production
companies

Inside Out Films and LemKino Pictures

Release date

16 October 2020 (2020-10-16) (LFF)

Running time

88 minutesCountries

Niger
United Kingdom

Languages

English
French
Hausa

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.

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

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