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- By Karimatu Anas
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A forced ‘child marriage’ threatened seventeen-year old Ghanaian Felicia Anongo’s pursuit of education. Or did it?
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- By Selase Kove-Seyram
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A Ghanaian photographer joined the hunt for a ‘most wanted’ pirate fishing ship.
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- By Lara Bourdin
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Africa, Africans art exhibit in Brazil evokes slave trade, sugar cane liquor, missionary zeal and voodoo.
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- By Gustavo Costa
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With no more oil money coming in, Angola’s rulers try to counter a winter of discontent by force.
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- By Gökçe Akyüz
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A wide variety of movies from Jamaica to Uganda and South Africa to Japan. Directors and Q & A’s. Open air screenings. And nine movies from nine different countries competing for the World Cinema Jury Award. That is this year's World Cinema Festival in Amsterdam.
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- By Francis Mbala
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DRC | Francis Mbala was investigating treatment facilities for malaria patients in Kinshasa. It got him arrested.
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- By ZAM Reporter
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80 years after publication the Buganda court historian’s book has finally been illustrated.
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Around Cape Town? Don’t miss out on the Same Same but Different exhibition at Gallery MOMO in the Bokaap quarter. George Hallett, one of South Africa’s best documentary photographers, opened his body of work - from Apartheid area, images of the District Six and his time in exile. The contemporary arts collective Burning Museum contributed an installation of blown-up album covers inspired by Hallett’s work.
Details: Gallery MOMO, Cape Town, 20 August until 26 September 2015
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History after Apartheid by Haroon Gunn Salie will be shown at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg from the 22 of August until the 19 of September 2015.
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Our latest flyer is the first of a series carrying the best of ZAM photography. Our opening shot presents Anton Corbijn's picture of Fela Kuti, made in Paris in 1981. A luta continua.
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- By ZAM reporter
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Igshaan Adams, a young artist from Cape Town, is going to present his multi-disciplinary exhibition Please Remember from the 29th of August in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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- By Cornelia Knoll
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If you’re in Hamburg in October, South African Choreographer Jessica Nupen’s dance performance Romeo & Juliet / REBELLION & JOHANNESBURG will be on stage. The young South African dancers are re-telling the Shakespearean story, exploring the challenges of their young generation while moving to the beats of Johannesburgs’ lively street culture.
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- By Gökçe Akyüz
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In July, Gökçe Akyuz joined the ZAM team as an intern. She loves Africa, investigative journalism and struggles for freedom and justice, that’s why. On the 20th of July a tragedy occurred in her home country.
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- By Cornelia Knoll
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Mohau Modisakeng is one of the many upcoming artists to look out for at this year’s Unseen, an international photography fair and festival taking place between 18 and 20 September at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam.
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- By ZAM reporter
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South Africa’s efforts to keep all languages alive have global impact.
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- By ZAM Reporter
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ZAM & Afrovibes | Free movement and strange cultures are the subjects of South African photographer Sabelo Mlangeni.
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French economist and writer of the international bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century will read the 2015 Nelson Mandela Lecture at the Soweto Campus of the University of Johannesburg today, 3 October at 15:00 (local time).
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- By Elnathan John
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An instruction manual for those who want a slice of the donor money pie.
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- By ZAM reporter
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Free movement and strange cultures are the subjects of South African photographer Sabelo Mlangeni.
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- By ZAM reporters and the New Crusading Guide
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Here is how thirty-four corrupt Ghanaian judges were exposed, and why. A ZAM reconstruction.
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The original Mandela Landscape, an art piece created by Dutch photographer and filmmaker Anton Corbijn and visual artist Berend Strik, has been sold 32.500 euro.
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- By Fulco van Aurich
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For a split second I can see the townships red dust dwirling up. Maxolisi Majozi, aka Zuluboy, starts a rhythmic monologue, mingles his rap voice with tight baselines and energetic drums at the opening night over Afrovibes, the Amsterdam based festival. The fusion between traditional township Mbaqanga music and Dutch rockers starts with slight hesitation.
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- By Gerald Kraak (1956-2014)
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One year after the passing of Gerald Kraak, ZAM pre-publishes parts of a novel he left us.
