In the centre of the square of May Jirgui, a Nigérien town on the edge of the Sahel, five hundred miles east of the capital, Niamey, are the graves of two French soldiers who were shot dead at the spot in July 1899.
Rob Lemkin is the director of several documentary films including African Apocalypse, which he co-wrote with Femi Nylander and Matt McConaghy. It was made for the British Film Institute and BBC2’s Arena.
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