How an African government and international institutions turned a blind eye to thirty years of sexual abuse at a Christian Mission.
09/05/2018
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Sold out! What a spectacular outcome of the crowdfunding for MFON. Women Photographers of the African Diaspora.
17/05/2018
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Afrolijk will host the exclusive Dutch premiere of the critically acclaimed feature film The African Storm by the Beninse director Sylvestre Amoussouat on Friday 1 June.
22/05/2018
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The plunder route to Panama
Chronicle #32 /How African oligarchs steal from their countries.
08/10/2017
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Mandela100 is a global, yearlong programme celebrating Nelson Mandela's 100th birthday. In the Netherlands, ZAM is initiating and coordinating activities within the framework of Mandela100.
17/05/2018
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Many books were distributed by the racist propaganda machine. But very few people were fooled by their content.
17/05/2018
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In a conversation with Oprah Winfrey South African comedian and The Daily Show anchor Trevor Noah explains how Apartheid declared him, the son of mixed parents, illegal.
01/05/2018
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Incorruptible by Evelyn Groenink
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African investigative journalism versus the kleptocrats
Chronicle #35 /“Our leaders will only listen if our stories are published in the West.”
01/05/2018
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Photo Editions #3 
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Apartheid Revisited Released
Blog /This interactive web application explores the whereabouts of white oppression in South Africa, its European/Dutch roots and the relevance of an 'old' story for today.
02/03/2018
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Essay | Hidden Walls & How To Climb Them
Chronicle #35 /If economic results are viewed from the secure bubble of the privileged, everything seems fine. This is why data should be disaggregated.
26/03/2018
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South Africa at Liberty, an exhibition with the works of Capetonian photographer Yasser Booley’s will open on Friday 4 May at CCMM in Maasmechelen, Belgium.
01/05/2018
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A fascinating study into the return of twenty skulls from Berlin to Namibia is now available online.
20/03/2018
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In The Dream of a Common Language, artist Judith Westerveld explores the colonial dispossession of many South African languages.
17/05/2018
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Cartoonists Ramón Esono Ebalé (Equitorial Guinea), Paul Bogaert (The Netherlands), Stacey Stent (South Africa) and Jonathan Shapiro (Zapiro, South Africa) take part in an exhibition in Haarlem, the Netherlands.
17/05/2018
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Although the subject matter of Neo Matloga’s canvases is domestic – daily life in black households in the artist’s native South Africa – they often have the epic scale of 19th century history paintings.
17/05/2018
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20/09/2017
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The Africa Studies Centre at Leiden University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, both in the Netherlands, will host a lecture by South African Professor Tom Lodge.
17/05/2018
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From Sharpeville to Gaza
Arena /According to Kallie Kriel ‘Apartheid was not a crime against humanity.’
17/05/2018
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Its from the birds eye where roads and rivers, forests and farmlands connect to cities and landscapes.
01/05/2018
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ZAM is grateful for receiving a copy of Felix de Rooy’s Ego Documenta, The Testament of my Ego, donated to the ZAM Library.
17/05/2018
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The Kenyan Film Classification Board has banned Wanuri Kahiu’s feature film ‘Rafiki’ (friend), a lesbian love story which will have its world premiere in Cannes, France, next month.
01/05/2018
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ZAM, the platform for African change, is celebrating Nelson Mandela's centenary with an elaborate program of activities: Mandela100.
15/01/2018
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Probably the most prestigious collection of contemporary photography from the African continent and the diaspora is coming to the Netherlands.
05/04/2018
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New cover design by Victor Ekpuk for the 60th anniversary edition of Achebe's world famous trilogy.
05/04/2018
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Blog
Say it loud!
- Game changer | Celebrating women photographers from the African Diaspora
- ZAM Library | From the shadows of colonial history I extract the tenderness of my universal destiny.’
- Call | ZAM is looking for a volunteer online editor for a webpage dedicated to Mandela100
- Apartheid comics online. ‘Educating the black man in the ways of western society.’
- MUST WATCH | Trevor Noah: ‘I was born a crime’
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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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Feel Safe. The Poster
Exclusive poster of a picture by Pieter van der Houwen, which he took for The African Tabloid. Image is depicting a security guard in Lagos, Nigeria.
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.
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Raymond Dakoua
Safe spacesIvory Coast-born, Brussels-based Raymond Dakoua is passionate about all things human. His multi-faceted work stretches many borders, both geographically and socially.
Signs of Solidarity
The ExhibitionIt started with a handful of activists, it turned into one of the biggest solidarity movements The Netherlands ever had. An initial affinity with the South African Boers turned into a massive engagement with the black majority. ‘Signs of Solidarity- The Exhibition’ is a moving account of 30 years of protest and debate, boycott and friendship.
Remember the Future
A special ZAM issue (Dutch)Adriaan van Dis Marlene Dumas Anton Corbijn Bram Vermeulen Berend Strik Lieve Joris Conny Braam Gerda Havertong Kadir van Lohuizen Sander Veeneman and others. Order your copy.