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Couto’s book Confession of a lioness (A Confissão da Leoa), reads as a poetic puzzle. The storyline comes to us in fragments and unfolds very slowly and indirectly. Set in Kulumani, a small, isolated village in the north of Mozambique, it soon becomes clear that something is very wrong there, but what exactly?
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In Algeria, a wealthy realtor, an ambitious neurologist haunted by memories of war and a young woman have to deal with choices made in the past.
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- By Milan Hermes
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How Mandla Langa made Mandela 'sing through his own words'
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- By Idza L
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This is an excerpt from Queer Africa 2: New Stories published by MaThoko Publishers, Johannesburg. The book presents 26 fiction and non-fictions stories by writers from seven African countries. Nine Pieces of Desires is written by Idza L, a Kenyan writer who is interested in writing stories about women and the lives they live.
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ZAM partner the African Investigative Publishing Collective, producer of the recent investigation into African Oligarchs and many others, will be out in full force to participate in the Global Investigative Journalism Conference, to be held on African soil for the first time in Johannesburg between 16 and 19 November.
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LagosPhoto is the first and only international arts festival of photography in Nigeria, launched in 2010 by the African Artists’ Foundation.
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Bringing together African change makers, Dutch activists and the diaspora in a joint event of solidarity.
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With no less than six members of ZAM’s partner the African Investigative Publishing Collective presenting their deep-digging stories, African investigative journalists occupied their deserved place on the international stage at the recently held Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Johannesburg.
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You are invited to join the Nelson Mandela Foundation in marking the 4th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's passing.
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Join Pak je avond, an inclusive celebration on December 5, 2017
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The reports of Dutch former diplomat Coen Stork (1928 – 2017) of the 1964 Rivonia Trial challenged misconceptions about South African freedom fighters.
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Three South African artists – Usha Seejarim, Lawrence Lemanoana and Hannelie Coetzee – have been nominated for the creation of a monument honouring Nelson Mandela in Ghent, Belgium.
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AfroPunk took Johannesburg, South Africa by storm (and a little rain) in the final days of 2017.
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- By Juul van der Laan
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The Ghanaian academic Francis Allotey was more than a great scientist, or maybe an example of what this title should entail.
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- By Paul Faber
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How the photo collections of two families connect worlds apart.
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Slavery and racism are much alive in todays' Mauritania.
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ZAM, the platform for African change, is celebrating Nelson Mandela's centenary with an elaborate program of activities: Mandela100.
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- By Christina Månsson
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In Alain Mabanckhou's novel Black Moses the memories of life in an orphanage represent todays' uproar.
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- By Laura Engels*
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Afrofuturism and the grand debate about (post) colonial, fragmented identities,stolen history and shattered dreams.
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- By Simone Atangana Bekono
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This short story by Simone Atangana Bekono is one of a recently published anthology Zwart. Afro-Europese Literatuur uit de Lage Landen in the Netherlands.
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Thanks to the courtesy of publisher AtlastContact, we are giving away three copies of Zwart. Afro-Europese Literatuur uit de Lage Landen.
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‘Before It Is Completely Gone’ - a solo exhibition by Thierry Oussou, his first with Stevenson gallery, opens in Johannesburg on Saturday February 10.
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- By Christian Locka
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Royalties for shareholders, tainted water for the locals
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A remarkable exhibition by fifteen South African artists is presently on view in Kunsthal KadE in Amersfoort, the Netherlands.
