Guillaume Blanc

The story begins with a dream – the dream of Africa. Virgin forests, majestic mountains surrounded by savannas, vast plains punctuated with the rhythms of animal life where lions, elephants, and giraffes reign as lords of nature, far from civilisation – all of us carry such images in our heads, imagining Africa as a timeless Eden untouched by the ravages...

During the colonisation of Africa, European colonists set about creating game reserves in Africa, convinced that they would find in Africa a nature that no longer existed in Europe. After independence, and with the help of UNESCO and the WWF, African leaders continued to 'protect' the same nature — a nature that the whole world wanted to be pristine, wild,...