In the Heart of Darkness: The Environmental Endgame of Darwin's Nightmare

Boris Trbic's article, aimed at senior secondary teachers and students of Media and English, provides social, historical, economic and cultural contexts to Hubert Sauper's fascinating documentary. "Super traces the consequences of this ecological and economic disaster, using unprecedented access to a gallery of emerging opportunists, from EU representatives and factory owners, to ex-Soviet pilots and Tanzanian prostitutes, to produce a comprehensive and alarming ethnographic study of the ruination of Central Africa.'