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Mandela Landscape
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Last Friday's opening of Zanele Muholi's exhibition at the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum saw hundreds of art lovers and friends of the South African 'visual activist' attending the ceremony.
10/07/2017
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Greener pastures
Chronicle #31 /The war for grazing lands in Africa.
09/07/2017
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Ghana | Ghost town
Chronicle #31 /We are in a national security crisis.
09/07/2017
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Somalia | There is no government here
Chronicle #31 /“I wake up every day ready to fight to survive”
09/07/2017
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How aid helps the rich get richer
Chronicle #30 /“I won’t complain. They can kill my children with witchcraft.”
19/06/2017
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The Ugandan tribes who need the guns
Chronicle #31 /The mini-arms races of the Karamoja.
09/07/2017
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Nigeria | How oil elite abandoned the farming lands
Chronicle #31 /“Lack of clear authority” left the time bomb ticking since the 1950s.
09/07/2017
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Kenya | Gentrifying Kibera
Chronicle #30 /They had come, way back in the year 2000, to promise Lucianna Wanjiku, 58, that her mud shack in Soweto settlement in Kibera, Nairobi, -often called ‘the greatest slum on earth- would be rehabilitated.
19/06/2017
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Uganda | The general and the naked women
Chronicle #30 /Outside Peyero bar on Gulu Municipality’s Langara road in north Uganda is a car which, by the last letter on its licence plate, belongs to State House, the official residence of the president.
19/06/2017
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Cameroon | The invisible trees of Bamenda
Chronicle #30 /“There were trees there,” says Patience Ndifor of the Society for Initiatives in Rural Development and Environmental Protection (SIRDEP) which receives funding from Germany, over the phone.
19/06/2017
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Congratulations to all winners of the CAP Prize 2017: Emmanuelle Andrianjafy (Madagascar, based in Senegal), Girma Berta (Ethiopia), Lebohang Kganye (South Africa), Fethi Sahraoui (Algeria) and Georges Senga (DR Congo).
11/06/2017
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The Omerta of Ivory Coast
Chronicle #30 /“You won’t find anyone talking to you about these programmes,” says Amadi Sidiné, whose shop alongside the main road in Duékoué, among the street’s many vegetable stalls, sells everything from cans of tomatoes to light bulbs.
19/06/2017
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Between Bitter Almonds and Good Hope, Part V
Chronicle #29 /In the trenches of the corruption.
10/06/2017
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In a quest to reposition the African continent’s brand through new visual imagery and discourse, and helped by his journalism and advertising past, Ghanaian photographer Nana Kofi Acquah will take charge of the ZAM Instagram account for a week.
16/05/2017
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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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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.