In this first episode, British-Nigerian poet and activist Femi Nylander starts his journey from his home in Oxford and travels from the UK to Niger to discover the modern-day impact on its people of atrocities that took place over a century ago. Femi traces the footsteps of a French army officer, Paul Voulet, who forged a path of unspeakable barbarity across the West African state of Niger in 1899 and unravels the uncanny parallels with the fictional colonial horror of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Show less