-
BE GLAD U R FREE
Blog /An old man with 9 fingers and twelve toes once told me a story while we shared a blanket and an oil lamp at a pastoral congregation one night.
11/07/2019
-
Mugabe Was Not A Revolutionary
Chronicle #41 /In the future, when history is written about Robert Mugabe, it will not be about a black man raised by a single mother, who defied all odds in racially segregated Southern Rhodesia to pursue an education at the highest levels. Neither will it be a history of an articulate black African teacher-turned-politician who spent around a decade in prison for challenging white colonial racism and working for the betterment of black Zimbabweans. It will be for the four decades that Robert Mugabe was at the helm of power in post-colonial Zimbabwe, in which his rule was anything but admirable.
17/09/2019
-
The Ivorian artist’s work is one of the highlights at this year’s international photo festival.
19/09/2019
-
Essay | How to read about Africa
Chronicle #41 /On 21 May 2019 after suffering a stroke, Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina (48) passed away. On Thursday 24th October, 2019, a celebration of his life and works will be held at Studio ZAM. Guests will focus on two of his brilliant essays: ‘How to Write About Africa’, about the framing of ‘Africa’ in Western media, and ‘I Am a Homosexual, Mom.’
As a kick-off for that meeting Dutch journalist Wim Bossema, who has been writing on ‘anything African’ since 1980, mainly for the Dutch daily de Volkskrant, shifts his focus from writing to reading.
02/09/2019
-
The brutal rape and killing of Capetonian student Uyinene Mrwetyane has given rise to the movement #AmINext.
17/09/2019
-
Friends and partners of ZAM met at the newly opened Stevenson Gallery in Amsterdam to enjoy an exhibition inspired by South African artist Peter Clarke’s Winter Sun.
02/09/2019
-
The African Investigative Publishing Collective and ZAM will present their groundbreaking reports on kleptocracy at an international journalists’ gathering in Hamburg in September.
02/09/2019
-
Lack of state services and protection encourages despair and militancy
03/07/2019
-
The Associates | Handling business for the kleptocrats
Chronicle #40 /African kleptocratic rulers plunder natural resources and state budgets with the assistance of international and local business people.
04/06/2019
-
The Associates | How We Did It
Chronicle #40 /Our researchers intimidated and detained, whistleblowers killed in suspect car accidents, legal threats and numerous ‘no comments.’
05/06/2019
-
Troubled Waters
Blog /The Amsterdam canals are once more a site of memory. The Black Heritage Tours and Afrovibes explore the history of colonialism and slavery.
05/06/2019
-
When Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina came out as a gay man he apologised to his late mother for never telling her the truth.
05/06/2019
-
This year’s edition of the Holland Festival has the signatures of two African associate artists.
30/05/2019
-
South African photographer Nontsikelelo Veleko has given one of her images to ZAM as a gesture of appreciation for our work.
14/05/2019
-
For poor women, doing sex work to survive is the rule rather than the exception.
07/05/2019
-
After protests Kenyans were finally able to watch this ground-breaking feature film about a lesbian love in their cinemas. But only for one week.
14/05/2019
-
-
For five years, Ben Krewinkel has been building an ever growing collection of 20th century African photobooks. The 500 to 550 titles in his possession reflect the changing visual representation of the continent. Krewinkel’s collection is visible online; he is also working on a book.
26/03/2019
-
Mozambique | Millions of UN dollars fail to reach villages fighting to survive in Mozambique
Chronicle #39 /Withholding of promised funds left Mozambican communities to battle cyclones, floods and drought alone for years.
26/03/2019
-
The Ivorian novelist, playwright, poet and former Minister of Culture died on March 9, 2019, in Abidjan.
09/04/2019
-
Santu Mofokeng: storyteller
Blog /“It took me less than half a minute to feel blown away by Mofokeng’s photo’s”, writes Laurens Nijzink.
26/03/2019
-
She is one of the driving forces behind the country’s and continent’s literary renaissance.
18/03/2019
-
Nelson Mandela Lecture Stamp
ZAM Art / -
First we were accused of ‘gross distortions’. Now the mining company gives in.
04/02/2019
-
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
Build Solidarity. Join ZAM.
ZAM Clip Favourite
Trailer | Black Man No Cry (in the ghetto) by Muse Pictures.
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.
Maria di Latte III by Ayana V. Jackson
Exclusive poster based on an image of an artwork by Ayana V. Jackson.Order here
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.
