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Last on. Mon 11 Feb GMT. More episodes Previous. Where was the last place humans made home? Could ancient viruses emerge once again? Duration: Strategic Command stressed that this is for a "fictional training scenario" and not an actual plan, it had clearly been thought through. Blog by Megha Mohan. Some academics in Ghana have started a petition to take down a statue of "racist" Gandhi.

All our stories are at bbc. Image source, Twitter. An RTI filed asking the Indian government if they were prepared for other-worldly invasion. But perhaps it's just as well that a sequel to World War Z was cancelled last year.

Would the public pay to watch a pandemic full of infected zombies, after living through the time of Coronavirus? If you have a story suggestion email entertainment. Contagion cast share Covid advice. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Talking Movies looks at how Hollywood depicts pandemics on screen. Kate Winslet is one of five cast members who filmed themselves offering Covid health tips. But it has gradually coalesced around the belief that a bokor or witch-doctor can render their victim apparently dead — either through magic, powerful hypnotic suggestion, or perhaps a secret potion — and then revive them as their personal slaves, since their soul or will has been captured.

The zombie, in effect, is the logical outcome of being a slave: without will, without name, and trapped in a living death of unending labour. The imperial nations of the North became obsessed with Voodoo in Haiti for one very good reason. Conditions in the French colony were so dreadful, the death rate amongst slaves so high, that a slave rebellion eventually overthrew their masters in Re-named Haiti from the French Saint-Domingue, the nation became the first independent black republic following a long revolutionary war in From then on it was consistently demonised as a place of violence, superstition and death because its very existence was an offence to European empires.

Throughout the 19th Century, reports of cannibalism, human sacrifice and dangerous mystical rites in Haiti were constant. The concept of the zombie in Voodoo folklore could be seen as a metaphor for slavery — but it was co-opted by American filmmakers for horror movies Credit: United Artists.

American forces attempted a systematic destruction of the native religion of Voodoo, which of course only reinforced its power. It is significant that White Zombie appeared in , right at the end of the American occupation of Haiti the troops left in These had once been immaterial spectres: now they were the very physical form of rotting corpses said to be lurching out of Haitian cemeteries.