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On the 17th of August 1982 the South African freedom fighter, journalist and scholar Ruth First was assassinated by parcel bomb sent to her by apartheid dead squads. Thirty-five years later, First is remembered as a courageous and stubborn activist against white supremacy and male domination.
17/08/2017
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A bouquet of contemporary African cinema is part of the 8th edition of Rialto's World Cinema Festival.
10/08/2017
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On Saturday the 29th of July 2017 the Nigerian police arrested 42 LGBT persons at a party in Owode Onirin in Lagos State. On a picture in one of the local newspapers that covered the story Ayϙ Adéné recognized a friend he had met ten years ago.
10/08/2017
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Between Bitter Almonds and Good Hope, Part IV
Chronicle #29 /The Force against Zuma’s empire.
15/05/2017
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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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This year's Afrovibes trade mark logo is designed by illustrator, photographer and art director Modise 'Blackdice' Sepeng from Alexandra, Johannesburg. As he writes in his bio his works 'simplistically adapts liberation heroes like Steve Biko and Madiba to current con texts of cool.'
10/08/2017
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Pride & Loss in Amsterdam
Blog /With photography from the Inkanyiso Collective, the Amsterdam No Man's Art Gallery honours the courage of South African LGBT activists and mourns the lives of so many fallen heroes.
10/08/2017
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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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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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South Africa's 'visual activist' Zanele Muholi's astonishing photography is now being hosted by one of the leading contemporary art spaces in the world, the Stedelijk Museum.
27/06/2017
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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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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.