How it all started: film director Juul van der Laan was making a film about science in Africa. She wanted to identify the sparks that enhance the creativity, freshness, and innovativity of Africa’s bright minds. For five weeks, with her camera, she travelled through Ghana on her own. The film MULTIVERSE Ghana is the outcome of that journey and also the first part of what is going to be a series of films about science in Africa. But before that happens, it was time for the Ghanaian premiere! The...
How it all started: film director Juul van der Laan was making a film about science in Africa. She wanted to identify the sparks that enhance the...
Justice! is an explosive Al Jazeera English documentary about Anas Aremeyaw Anas’s undercover crusade to rid Ghana of judicial corruption once and for all. Over a period of two years, the award-winning investigative journalist and proud member of our ZAM network secretly filmed 12 Ghanaian High Court judges, 22 other judges, and 140 court officials accepting bribes. While exposing their corruption, his actions also led to the release of alleged murderers and rapists. Kofi Annan: "Sometimes it takes...
Justice! is an explosive Al Jazeera English documentary about Anas Aremeyaw Anas’s undercover crusade to rid Ghana of judicial corruption once and for...
On 5 December 2013, Nelson Mandela passed away. His life and legacy will be commemorated at numerous events between the 5th and the 15th of December, the day he was laid to rest in Qunu, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The Johannesburg based Nelson Mandela Foundation organises two tributes to Mandela on both days respectively. On December 12 a 'Mandela Rememberance Walk' will take place from the Freedom Park to the Union Buildings in Pretoria. More information: www.nelsonmandela.org In Amsterdam, two...
On 5 December 2013, Nelson Mandela passed away. His life and legacy will be commemorated at numerous events between the 5th and the 15th of December, the...
A new ZAM-AIPC transnational investigation shows that a “war-only” strategy creates more and more terrorists in East and West Africa. A 'hearts and minds' approach aimed at dialogue with vulnerable populations seems desperately needed to fight the 'siren call' of violent religious fundamentalist movements, but is absent. In No Hearts, No Minds. The War on Terror in Africa Part I we present the first findings of a transnational investigation conducted by ZAM's partners in the African Investigative...
A new ZAM-AIPC transnational investigation shows that a “war-only” strategy creates more and more terrorists in East and West Africa. A 'hearts and...
In this month’s special, the ZAM Chronicle launches ‘Hearts and Minds’: a preview of the ‘War on Terror’ transnational investigation conducted by our partners in the African Investigative Publishing Collective. We take this opportunity to present the team members who undertook this difficult, lengthy and often risky assignment. Hamza Idris is the politics editor at Daily Trust in Nigeria. Born in Jos, Plateau State, he went to University in Maiduguri, which was later to be the birth place of the...
In this month’s special, the ZAM Chronicle launches ‘Hearts and Minds’: a preview of the ‘War on Terror’ transnational investigation conducted by our...
This special issue of the ZAM Chronicle is dedicated to the transnational ‘War on Terror’ investigation conducted by our partners in the African Investigative Publishing Collective (see a presentation of the team members here .) Called ‘Hearts and Minds,’ the preview of this deep-digging team investigation into terrorism and the fight against it in East and West Africa can be found here . The full investigation will be presented at the end of January 2016. It will contain revelations about the...
This special issue of the ZAM Chronicle is dedicated to the transnational ‘War on Terror’ investigation conducted by our partners in the African...
No Hearts, No Minds, The War on Terror in Africa Part 1 is a new ZAM-AIPC transnational investigation. It shows that a 'war only' strategy creates more and more terrorists in the eastern and western regions of the continent. In this chapter: Mali. “The government ignores us completely and that makes us rebellious,” says Mahamane Gobi, a construction entrepreneur in Timbuktu. Gobi's office and workshop have stood empty since 2012, the year of the first jihadist invasion. Gobi never liked the...
No Hearts, No Minds, The War on Terror in Africa Part 1 is a new ZAM-AIPC transnational investigation. It shows that a 'war only' strategy creates more...
No Hearts, No Minds, The War on Terror in Africa Part 1 is a new ZAM-AIPC transnational investigation. It shows that a 'war only' strategy creates more and more terrorists in the eastern and western regions of the continent. In this chapter: Kenya. If to intimidate, persecute, abuse and kill suspects is a way to the “hearts and minds” of marginalized young Muslims who are sensitive to the call of extremist militants in Kenya, the Kenyan government is doing well in the War on Terror. Unfortunately,...
No Hearts, No Minds, The War on Terror in Africa Part 1 is a new ZAM-AIPC transnational investigation. It shows that a 'war only' strategy creates more...
No Hearts, No Minds, The War on Terror in Africa Part 1 is a new ZAM-AIPC transnational investigation. It shows that a 'war only' strategy creates more and more terrorists in the eastern and western regions of the continent. In this chapter: Somalia. Abdi Mohamed (26) looks sadly at his empty hands. A few months ago these hands still held a gun, but since he defected from Al Shabaab on the promise of amnesty from the Somali government, that gun is gone. What has happened to it, he can only guess:...
No Hearts, No Minds, The War on Terror in Africa Part 1 is a new ZAM-AIPC transnational investigation. It shows that a 'war only' strategy creates more...
No Hearts, No Minds, The War on Terror in Africa Part 1 is a new ZAM-AIPC transnational investigation. It shows that a 'war only' strategy creates more and more terrorists in the eastern and western regions of the continent. In this chapter: Nigeria. Credit where credit is due, Radio Dandal Kura was a brilliant idea of the Americans. It had been a mega-discovery that, in the area around Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram, ten million people spoke nothing but Kanuri, not to mention that no...
No Hearts, No Minds, The War on Terror in Africa Part 1 is a new ZAM-AIPC transnational investigation. It shows that a 'war only' strategy creates more...
Throughout 2015, we published more than 70 stories in our newsletter magazine the ZAM Chronicle. These are our ten most-read magazine stories of 2015: How to run a Nigerian NGO An instruction manual for those who want a slice of the donor money pie. Chronicle #16 / By Elnathan John The Many Truths of Tokyo Sexwale South Africa | Based on the average track record of FIFA presidents so far, Tokyo Sexwale seems the perfect candidate Chronicle #16 / By Evelyn Groenink Special | No Hearts, No Minds...
Throughout 2015, we published more than 70 stories in our newsletter magazine the ZAM Chronicle. These are our ten most-read magazine stories of 2015:...
Once the 'Mountains of Kong' crossed the African continent. A mountain range from the Niger river's source in West Africa to the White Nile in the east was drawn onto maps for more than a hundred years up until 1995. However, the mountains were a figment of Scottish 'explorer' Mungo Park's imagination. They didn't exist. Up to today, mountains of disinformation and stereotype with regard to Africa cloud our understanding of the continent. The image, for example, of 'noble primitives' happily...
Once the 'Mountains of Kong' crossed the African continent. A mountain range from the Niger river's source in West Africa to the White Nile in the east...
Last autumn Africalia, the Africa Platform of the Ghent University Association (GAP), Ghent University and 11.11.11 launched the photo monograph Transit — RDC in tribute to the late artist and photographer Kiripi Katembo. The Congolese Katembo was born in 1979, in the midst of Mobutu’s dictatorship. He became one of the most promising artists of his generation. His work is characterized by a strong aesthetic and poetic dimension. In a life too short he won numerous awards. Katembo photographed the...
Last autumn Africalia, the Africa Platform of the Ghent University Association (GAP), Ghent University and 11.11.11 launched the photo monograph Transit...
This is the exhilarating work of Dutch photographer Ernst Schade (1949). It's on view at the Kulungwana Association at the CFM Railway Station, Maputo, Mozambique from 18 February until 17 March 2016. 'O que viu, o que vê' ('What he saw, what he sees'), as the exhibition is called, presents a selection of pictures Schade shot over the years in several African countries and Portugal. Schade is a self taught photographer who has lived in Lisbon since 1995. He co-authored a number of books, including...
This is the exhilarating work of Dutch photographer Ernst Schade (1949). It's on view at the Kulungwana Association at the CFM Railway Station, Maputo,...
A self-taught photographer, Ernst began taking and publishing photographs in 1984 when he was still living in Southern Africa, including Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Since 1995, Schade is living in Portugal, and photography is now his main occupation. He has worked with photographers such as Sebastião Salgado, Peter Turnley and Kadir van Lohuizen. In Mozambique, he also worked with Ricardo Rangel, Kok Nam and Sérgio Santimano. The exhibition "O Que Viu, O Que Vê" is open until 18 March 2016....
A self-taught photographer, Ernst began taking and publishing photographs in 1984 when he was still living in Southern Africa, including Zambia, Zimbabwe...
The exhibition 'Society' is a collaboration between Framer Framed and the Market Photo Workshop. Framer Framed (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and the Market Photo Workshop (Johannsburg, South Africa) have teamed up for the exhibition Society , which opens at Framer Framed on international women’s day tomorrow, Tuesday March 8. Society features works by South African photographer Akona Kenqu (b.1987). In this series Kenqu explores the daily lives, identities and roles of skaters in contemporary...
The exhibition 'Society' is a collaboration between Framer Framed and the Market Photo Workshop. Framer Framed (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and the...
Submissions are now open for the Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology on the topics of gender, human rights and sexuality for a range of writing genres and photography. The award is named after Gerald Kraak, a South African writer and former anti-apartheid activist. Kraak passed away in October 2014. One year later, ZAM published fragments of his unfinished novel Shadow Play . The book will be released later this year. The Jacana Literary Foundation (JLF), in partnership with The Other Foundation...
Submissions are now open for the Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology on the topics of gender, human rights and sexuality for a range of writing genres and...
Weddings in Southern Africa are an amalgamation of African cultural practices and Western rituals Sabelo Mlangeni (South Africa) is one of the winners of POPCAP'16, the piclet.org Prize for Contemporary African Photography. His work Isivumelwano: An agreement, 2003-2014 comprises a series of photographs shot at various wedding ceremonies in South Africa, Lesotho, Mozambique and Swaziland. How does the love between two people become a community event? In a statement, Mlangeni writes: 'Wedding...
Weddings in Southern Africa are an amalgamation of African cultural practices and Western rituals Sabelo Mlangeni (South Africa) is one of the winners of...
Amsterdam in the Netherlands will be full of music, literature, film, debate and art in Afrikaans between 8 and 10 April 2016. Our Dutch readers are invited to meet South Africans Jack Parow, Antjie Krog, Hemelbesem, Tom Lanoye, Bettina Wyngaard, Ingrid Winterbach and many more at the upcoming A.K.A Afrikaanse Kultuurfees in Amsterdam. The 3d edition of this festival is happening at the Compagnietheater, the Melkweg, the Zuid-Afrika Huis and Rialto cinema. On Sunday April 10, ZAM will co-host the...
Amsterdam in the Netherlands will be full of music, literature, film, debate and art in Afrikaans between 8 and 10 April 2016. Our Dutch readers are...
Visiting Kampala in the Netherlands The City Remixing exhibition, on in Groningen in the Netherlands from 7th to 28th April, shows the Ugandan capital through the eyes of three photographers. They are M.W. Wambwa (1933), one of the first engineers in the country and a photojournalist who covered the first years of independence in the sixties; Dr. A.T. Schofield, a UK missionary, medical doctor and amateur photographer who lived in Uganda in the early years of the last century; and Sudanese Elsadig...
Visiting Kampala in the Netherlands The City Remixing exhibition, on in Groningen in the Netherlands from 7th to 28th April, shows the Ugandan capital...
Debate Afrikaans and Diversity at A.K.A. 2016 What is the essence of a language? In South Africa, Afrikaans used to be the 'tongue of the oppressor.' Today, it is just one of eleven official languages, an equal among equals. But whose Afrikaans are we talking about? Afrikaans isn't -and has never been- exclusively white: it is the home language of five million 'coloureds,' people of mixed heritage, and quite a few blacks too. Under apartheid, this reality was suppressed: schools taught only 'white'...
Debate Afrikaans and Diversity at A.K.A. 2016 What is the essence of a language? In South Africa, Afrikaans used to be the 'tongue of the oppressor.'...
