In 1964, Nelson Mandela and his co-defendants barely escaped the death penalty. This reconstruction of the ‘Rivonia Trial’ tells a story more relevant than ever.
08/11/2018
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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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Building a world beyond them and us
23/10/2018
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The walls of kleptocracy are cracking under the force of stories and revelations. With a new pan-African alliance the changemakers’ movement enters a new stage.
08/11/2018
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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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Alex Esagala, Brian Otono and Jibril Kwizera are the recipients of this year’s Uganda Press Photo Award (UPPA).
23/10/2018
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During the upcoming edition of Club Mozaïek Live! the versatile band Shakuar will perform. Based in the Netherlands, with roots in Namibia, Morocco and Italy, this electronic trio mixes classical music with hiphop and pop.
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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Where’s that brandy, folks, let us drink!
Chronicle #38 /Last week former Apartheid Minister Pik Botha died. He was a genius in many ways.
23/10/2018
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Cameroon | YaPhoto. An artist collective
Chronicle #38 /“Each one, teach one.”
02/10/2018
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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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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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The UK’s Autograph Gallery hosts Senegalese artist Omar Victor Diop first solo exhibition recasting history and the global politics of black resistance.
31/07/2018
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There were no cribs, no bitches, expensive Nikes or flashy wheels in his lyrics, Re Fuse magazine reports.
19/07/2018
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Nigeria | Internet scamming. The Yahoo Boys Universe
Chronicle #37 /Olivia Ndubuisi infiltrated one of the notorious ‘419 scams’ industry’s headquarters.
31/07/2018
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South Africa | The man who connected the dots
Chronicle #37 /Activist Minister Pravin Gordhan, back in government, fights to bring South Africa back from the brink. Change has come but 'the contest is still on.'
28/08/2018
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The body is me. Three photographers focus the lens on itself as a window on the world.
23/10/2018
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‘How Not To Ask A Question'
Chronicle #36 /Why do young Nigerians ask president Macron for advice?
19/07/2018
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Back to Ventersdorp
Uncle Tom /An early nineties whites-only pub in Ventersdorp, South Africa, a recent meeting of the neighbourhood watch in Pretoria, a conference of the Young Liberals in the Netherlands. What’s the difference?
02/10/2018
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Nottingham, UK and São Paulo, Brazil | Emmanuelle Andrianjafy’s photography in two exhibitions
Blog /Emmanuelle Andrianjafy, whose work was featured in ZAM’s Photo Edition #4, is one of the participating photographers in an exhibition exploring ‘Africa’.
27/09/2018
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South Africa | The artist who was not allowed to be
Chronicle #37 /The murdered aspiration of Thami Mnyele
31/07/2018
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Letter from Bamako | The circus came to town
Chronicle #37 /The recent elections in Mali are based on a colonial model, a ritual virtually nobody believes in.
28/08/2018
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Friends of ZAM get a 10% discount on Zanele Muholi’s new book.
13/09/2018
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Fighting the homophobia within me
Chronicle #36 /As a Dutch activist against racism and racist caricatures like ‘Zwarte Piet’, Jerry Afriyie longs for a society that includes everyone.
19/07/2018
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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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Maria di Latte III by Ayana V. Jackson
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Emmanuelle Andrianjafy
Nothing's in VainIn 2011, Malagasy photographer Emmanuelle Andrianjafy arrived in the harbour city of Dakar, situated on the westernmost African coast, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. This relocation marked the beginning of her interest in photography.
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
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.