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"My photographs are a concise summary of cinematic images often narrating tales of solitude and bewilderment."
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The campaign, which closed on 15 June 2020, was a great success, receiving in excess of 100 donations.
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"It is important for me to keep a deep relationship with my home country."
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"This project is a reflection on personal identity for Moroccan youth based on a selection of portraits of young people who take their destinies into their own hands."
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"This is the story of two friends who shared the same dream: reaching Europe, where they hope to live a better life and sustain their family."
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"On their way from South Sudan to Uganda, refugees walked for days or weeks carrying embroidered sheets, decorated with swirls of flowers, trees, and animals."
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"Tala ngai is an expression from Lingala, one of the four national languages of the Democratic Republic of Congo which means "Look at me or visit me."
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The significance of Binyavanga Wainaina, the Kenyan writer who died a year ago on May 21, 2019, cannot be underestimated.
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"Each of us remembers those photographers who were almost smiling, where our parents took us to immortalize a celebration, an event, or simply to give us a portrait for an administrative procedure."
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"Hammam Diaries by Mehdy Mariouch is a trip back in time."
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A review of Guy Woueté's exhibition at De Brakke Grond.
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This month 35 years ago, a rain of bullets by a South African death squad ended the life and career of artist and activist Thami Mnyele. The Thami Mnyele Foundation, that welcomed 127 African artists in its studio in Amsterdam, kept his ideas alive.
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We mourn the death of Kirvan Fortuin, a South African dancer, choreographer and LGBTIQ activist.
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Dutch documentary filmmaker and journalist Serginho Roosblad follows Jonathan Calm's search into America's past and present.
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Celebrating the five year anniversary of Juul van der Laan’s documentary Multiverse Ghana with a free viewing
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Since December of last year, the Moroccan artist Adam Belarouchia has been a resident at the Thami Mnyele artist studio in Amsterdam – much longer than expected, since all the flights home were cancelled. This is a portrait of a young artist, who gets his inspiration from the streets of Rabat.
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The work of Nigerian artist Abdulrazaq Awofeso is the main attraction of the exhibition City Life in the Dutch city of Arnhem. Two thousand small faces to tell you that one shouldn’t generalise.
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Shortly before the inaugural ZAM Nelson Mandela Lecture started, an iconic picture of the South African freedom fighter and statesman found its way to the stage of the Amsterdam City Theatre. It was shot by George Hallett, who died in Cape Town on July 1st 2020.
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A fashion book by transgender sex workers from Cape Town. Life on the edge of the Castle of Good Hope.
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The 'Terrible Ones', those young Angolans who collaborated with Apartheid South Africa during its border wars, re-enact the Biblical story of Judas.
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'Suddenly I turned out to be black. Yes, I knew but after moving to Arnhem (The Netherlands) I got reminded of my skin colour all the time'.
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The Vuyani Dance Company needs our support.
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Images from Mozambique, the DRC and Angola offer the viewer a window from which to observe the brick-and-mortar residue left by the collapse of regimes.
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From the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing to the International Booker Prize to Pride Photo Award.
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Last year in the Netherlands, the ethnographic museums drew up guidelines for the restitution of artifacts stolen during colonialism. A special commission was formed to evaluate possible claims. Is this really such good news for the countries in which the art was made?
