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On wednesday 11 February 2015 it's 25 years ago Nelson Mandela was released from prison. After 27 years on Robben Island and in Victor Verster Prison, he continued his long walk to freedom: special edition about Mandela
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ZAM is over the moon to announce that the legendary undercover journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas (known from the documentary 'Chameleon' and award-winning 'Fair Trade' researcher Selay Kouassi (nominated for 'De Tegel' in 2013) will visit Amsterdam from 4 to 8 March on invitation of ZAM.
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Every now and then, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, the famous undercover journalist from Ghana, got a bit cross during his ZAM-invited visit to the Netherlands last week. “I want to ask: who made these rules,” he countered when ethical questions around ‘going undercover’ were raised during a debating evening in Amsterdam event venue De Zwijger. “We are talking about my society, Ghana. In my society we expose injustice in this way. You had your social struggles here in Holland- let us have ours.”
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In the run up to Nigeria’s elections, ‘Godfather’ Bola Tinubu invigorates hopes for change.
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New documentary ‘The Supreme Price’ portrays the Abiola family’s struggle for democracy and women’s rights in Nigeria.
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Bola Tinubu is the kingmaker behind Nigeria's new ruling party and president.
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ZAM republishes Fela Kuti’s 1981 Paris concert series by Anton Corbijn to mark Nigeria’s elections –and the photographer’s 60th birthday.
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Ghana’s undercover reporters expose a ‘mommy’ who starved orphans whilst making them clap and sing for ‘voluntourists’.
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ZAM’s Congolese correspondent Eric Mwamba returned to his home country, the DRC, illegally, to investigate the link between corruption and war. Then he got kidnapped.
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Assassinations and thug rule underpin president’s third term bid in Burundi.
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Images that won this years’ Contemporary African Photography Prize are full of gaps and wonder.
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Behind Botswana’s happy and prosperous image lie some disconcerting truths.
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Film posters for the film Multiverse: Ghana by Juul van der Laan arrived. This film is a creative exploration of science in Ghana. A journey into ambition, unconventional methodology and determination.
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In the early 2000’s, two serial killers roamed Swaziland. Only one of them was human.
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The French anti-jihadist forces’ new romance with Touareg rebels in the north is making Mali’s government very unhappy.
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ZAM starts seven African-European transnational investigations.
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Brothers in photography, Hasan and Husain Essop, unveil the shadows of Cape Town’s past and present.
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An exploration of power, the fear it generates and love in all its magical, addictive forms. Exclusive excerpt.
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Celebrating his achievements, continuing his struggle.
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We were there: an evening with Ogutu Muraya, a Kenyan writer, theatre maker and storyteller. On Thursday the 9th of July, 2015, Muraya gave a performance at the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development in Amsterdam, as part of its ‘Cultural Defiance’ event series. Most of his stories are based on true events driven by the past, living memories about cultural, social and political events in Kenya and the region. Muraya shared three stories with the audience. In ‘Nobody Knows My Name’ he recalls his departure from Kenya and meeting his first love. ’Toilet Training’ tells a story of toilet divisions for blacks and whites. Lastly, ‘The Language of One’ touches upon the role of women in society. Here is this cat looking for the strongest and smartest creature to be friends with. After courting several animals from a monkey to a elephant, the cat comes across a man who shoots his new animal friends. Is it only a woman that can silence the guns used by men, he wonders? Women are the strongest and smartest living beings on earth, the cat concludes.
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In the past two months, Isabelle Dusabe worked with the ZAM team in Amsterdam. Living in Belgium from Rwandan descent, Dusabe joined ZAM in order to improve her Dutch. Why? We don’t know but Isabelle says it might improve her chances of getting a job in Belgium. However, Dusabe’s real passion is dance. Something that can do without language, can’t it?
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We are at the West India House, the former headquarters of the Dutch West India Company notoriously known for its history of slave trade. Colonialism and slavery are the themes of the recently launched Black Amsterdam Heritage Tours founded by Jennifer Tosch. So it’s the proper place to gather for a tour with 35 participants on July 16, 2015, organized by the ZAM team as a gesture of appreciation to all volunteers, partners and friends of the movement.
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Finally, The Netherlands launched its own edition of the International Nelson Mandela Day. Last Saturday, July 18, 2015, the Amsterdam based Kwaku Summer Festival was the meeting point for Mandela friends and admirers. ZAM, the South African Embassy, Afrovibes, South African Tourism, Maandblad Zuid-Afrika and, last but not least, the local ‘Samen door Mandela’ initiative gathered at a special pavilion.
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Our friends at the amazing Contemporary And (C&) website interviewed young South African artist Lebohang Kganye about her special relation to her grandfather, the idea of performance and being born after 1989 in Johannesburg.
