“As a young black woman, born and bred in the Netherlands with Ghanaian roots, I have encountered several instances that highlight that Mandela’s fight is still relevant today.”
12/05/2021
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This group show investigates everyday objects and aspects of our daily lives that inspire the emergence of creativity —as well as the unexpected mediums that serve as canvases.
21/04/2021
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The Great British Whitewash
Blog /An official UK report on racism is ‘consistent with the radical historical amnesia and vicious revisionism of Caribbean and African history by the British far right’.
12/05/2021
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Despite having to flee after the state raided their offices, members of LGBT+ Rights Ghana vow to continue to work for legal recognition in a country pushing for even more repressive laws.
12/05/2021
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A conversation with the UCT's Dr. Divine Fuh on the impact of the recently destroyed archives.
21/04/2021
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In the Mozambican province wracked by a violent insurgency, the convenient labelling of those rising up against the predatory elite paints a picture that is far from reality.
31/03/2021
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In her first solo exhibition, Lola Keyezua (1988, Angola) explores the sexuality of the elderly by focusing on social, cultural and religious influences.
21/04/2021
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Coming soon—our new video series #ImagineMandela, in which we ask changemakers in the Netherlands: ‘what is your ideal?’
06/04/2021
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For more than three decades, ZAM's Investigations Editor Evelyn Groenink researched the murder of Paris ANC representative Dulcie September in 1988. The complex backgrounds of this gruesome act presented in Groenink's book Incorruptible were long ignored. Until now.
22/03/2021
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Late president John Magafuli never was the anti-corruption saviour international media claimed.
25/03/2021
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This year’s online edition of Movies that Matter features at least four films of interest to our readership.
06/04/2021
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Billions of dollars disappear through cartel schemes.
06/04/2021
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No others, same time in African Cosmologies. Photography, Time, and the Other.
08/03/2021
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The launch of the #ImagineMandela video series in preparation for the ZAM Nelson Mandela Lecture 2022.
09/03/2021
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Here's a digital publication hailing Kenya's emerging designers, illustrators, writers, stylists and photographers coming together in times of COVID-19.
23/02/2021
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Depicting women—their poses, their attire, their hairstyles—differently.
17/03/2021
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The djelis took cultures and traditions across the African continent and even the world. They even resonate in the works of rappers and spoken word artists.
17/03/2021
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ZAM launches Bureau Afrika
Blog /Platform for Investigative Journalism. Stories for Change.
02/02/2021
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When a policeman kills your son and there is nothing you can do. The closed doors around Catherine Ndlovu.
15/02/2021
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Dambudzo Marechera still inspires those who fight for freedom and justice in the postcolony.
23/02/2021
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Open for Applications: New Temporary Programme Ecologies of Transformation, Sandberg Instituut
Blog /'The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible' — Toni Cade Bambara.
23/02/2021
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The relationship between farmers and herders has grown increasingly tense amid contestations over land, crop damage, cattle stealing, and violence.
23/02/2021
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In this online live event, Rose Wambui Kamande, Odilia Anyachi Okonga, Vamba Sherif and Rahab Njeri will discuss life and work, especially his latest work, The Perfect Nine with the Kenyan giant world literature.
23/02/2021
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The South African Revenue Service (SARS) was probably the greatest success story of the country’s post-Apartheid era. Former President Zuma saw in SARS a threat to his interests and his kleptocratic clique.
20/01/2021
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While his music was political, he did not want to be a ‘state composer’.
02/02/2021
Build Solidarity. Join ZAM.
Tsoku Maela
Morphing the Stories of the PastTsoku Maela (1989, Lebowakgomo, South Africa) went to a film school with no intention to become an artist. When he started to make pictures, he found that the self-portraits he shot impacted positively on his manic depressions. Finally, he started writing as well. It all helps to better understand the world, to raise issues people fear to talk about and break through stigmas.