The Live Stream of the 2019 Nelson Mandela Lecture brought to you by ZAM Magazine.
10/02/2019
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“No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.” - Ursula K. Le Guin
04/02/2019
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A born speaker, music, dance, film and installations. This is your guide to the 2019 Nelson Mandela Lecture, organised by ZAM.
04/02/2019
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The Faso Dance Théâtre will perform an excerpt of Kirina at the Nelson Mandela Lecture. Librettist Felwine Sarr explores a mythical West African story that inspired the choreography.
04/02/2019
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The Lecture is the grand finale of the Mandela100 Centenary celebration and the beginning of an annual tradition.
08/01/2019
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09.02.19 | Talking Mandela
Events /Southeast City District Chairperson Tanja Jadnanansing hosts a conversation with Sisonke Msimang.
04/02/2019
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First we were accused of ‘gross distortions’. Now the mining company gives in.
04/02/2019
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It was the good old days, and I was a small boy smothered by the smorgasbord of sensations symbolic of the age of wonder.
22/01/2019
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Nigeria | When deaths become too much
Chronicle #39 /Why Nigerian doctors escape a rotten health system.
22/01/2019
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What would a borderless world look like? It sounds like utopia but in his essay, South Africa-based Cameroonian thinker Achille Mbeme makes the realities of borders, restrictions and the right to move denied to most people in the world look far more surreal than the alternative.
22/01/2019
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Mozambican artist João Roxo wants to ship charity back to the ‘North’ and say ‘thanks but no thanks’
18/12/2018
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‘We shall not be silenced’
Blog /We are shocked by the assassination of our Ghanaian colleague and investigative journalist Ahmed Hussein Suale.
22/01/2019
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On Monday 17 December, 2018, our colleague Estacio Valoi and his team were arrested by the Mozambican army.
20/12/2018
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Evelien Groenink talks about the making and the impact of her book published earlier this year. In her groundbreaking book Incorruptible, ZAM investigations editor Evelyn Groenink exposes the inconvenient truths behind the murder of three Southern African freedom fighters.
06/12/2018
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Under Apartheid, categories such as ‘Coloured’ and ‘Indian’ were used as tools of anti-blackness.
06/12/2018
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A recent exhibition of struggle t-shirts in Johannesburg illustrates how the simple crew neck is a personal marker of the political past and present.
06/12/2018
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Meet Adam Belarouchia, current resident at the Thami Mnyele Studio in Amsterdam. This young artist from Morocco has received awards since his studies at the Institute of Fine Arts in Tetouan.
06/12/2018
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Saleh Addonia | Zij is een vreemd land, voorpublicatie
Chronicle #38 /Terras, een tijdschrift voor internationale literatuur, presenteert deze week een bijzondere editie met verhalen van Afrikaanse auteurs. (Note: excerpt in English with the article).
22/11/2018
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Africa in science fiction at the Aké Arts and Book Festival in Lagos (Nigeria)
22/11/2018
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South Africa | Why only a Nissan?
Chronicle #38 /Essay – In the late 1990s, Kiza Magendane and his uncle left their native country of Congo to start a new life elsewhere. Kiza ended up in the Netherlands, his uncle in South Africa. Nineteen years later they meet in Pretoria. 'Kiza, the South African dream does not exist.'
08/11/2018
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At 80, the late Nigerian musician must be celebrated for his revolutionary message of empowerment.
23/10/2018
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With the upcoming exhibition, Kewpie’s life, a hairdresser by day and a performer drag queen by night, will be celebrated.
13/09/2018
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The winner of the 2018 Principal Prince Claus Award transfers hairdressers, immigrants and ‘bornfrees’ from Johannesburg to Lagos Photo.
08/11/2018
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French President Emmanuel Macron recently took his first trip under his official position to Nigeria, a move that Quartz labelled as “low on policy, but high on culture.”
31/07/2018
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Blog
Say it loud!
- Open for admission | Apply for Resolution at The Sandberg Instituut
- Mozambique | UK’s MRM-Gemfields will pay compensation for killings and beatings
- Kirina and the Promise of a New Dawn
- Call for Entries | 8th Edition of the CAP Prize for Contemporary African Photography
- Obituary | For the Love of Wisdom
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The Contrarian
That's just not right
- Behind the NGO Attack | Elnathan John
- The Rainbow Myth | Nomalanga Mkhize
- Taking sex workers off the streets won't help fight HIV | Dianne Massawe
- "It’s not poverty that is to blame for the weak African responses to Ebola, but bad leadership" | Professor Oyewale Tomori
- Cyril Ramaphosa "not solely to blame for Marikana massacre" | Steven Friedman
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Emmanuelle Andrianjafy
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Between bitter almonds and good hope
South Africa today. A ZAM special.More than two decades after South Africa’s transition to democracy the country is in disarray. The ideals of a revolution – non-racialism, non-sexism, non-tribalism and a constitutional democracy – are being betrayed by an elitist faction under the leadership of president Jacob Zuma.
Remember the Future
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