In the future, when history is written about Robert Mugabe, it will not be about a black man raised by a single mother, who defied all odds in racially segregated Southern Rhodesia to pursue an education at the highest levels. Neither will it be a history of an articulate black African teacher-turned-politician who spent around a decade in prison for challenging white colonial racism and working for the betterment of black Zimbabweans. It will be for the four decades that Robert Mugabe was at the helm of power in post-colonial Zimbabwe, in which his rule was anything but admirable.

17/09/2019

On 21 May 2019 after suffering a stroke, Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina (48) passed away. On Thursday 24th October, 2019, a celebration of his life and works will be held at Studio ZAM. Guests will focus on two of his brilliant essays: ‘How to Write About Africa’, about the framing of ‘Africa’ in Western media, and ‘I Am a Homosexual, Mom.’

As a kick-off for that meeting Dutch journalist Wim Bossema, who has been writing on ‘anything African’ since 1980, mainly for the Dutch daily de Volkskrant, shifts his focus from writing to reading.

02/09/2019

Lack of state services and protection encourages despair and militancy

03/07/2019

Forest homes for the wealthy, sewage water for the rest.

02/07/2019

There are no simple explanations, Dr Rahmane Idrissa told a meeting of journalist at the African Studies Centre Leiden where he was one of the speakers. But he did give his audience some clues.

14/05/2019

Withholding of promised funds left Mozambican communities to battle cyclones, floods and drought alone for years.

26/03/2019

The Tutsi dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front never retaliated the 1994 genocide with another genocide, Jos van Oijen writes. 

18/12/2018

Terras, een tijdschrift voor internationale literatuur, presenteert deze week een bijzondere editie met verhalen van Afrikaanse auteurs. (Note: excerpt in English with the article).

22/11/2018

The recent elections in Mali are based on a colonial model, a ritual virtually nobody believes in.

28/08/2018

French President Emmanuel Macron recently took his first trip under his official position to Nigeria, a move that Quartz labelled as “low on policy, but high on culture.”

31/07/2018

As a Dutch activist against racism and racist caricatures like ‘Zwarte Piet’, Jerry Afriyie longs for a society that includes everyone.

19/07/2018

There were no cribs, no bitches, expensive Nikes or flashy wheels in his lyrics, Re Fuse magazine reports.

19/07/2018

“Our leaders will only listen if our stories are published in the West.”

01/05/2018

‘Onze leiders luisteren pas als onze verhalen in Westerse media verschijnen.’

01/05/2018

How the photo collections of two families connect worlds apart.

06/02/2018

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.

06/02/2018

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.

13/11/2017

How Mandla Langa made Mandela 'sing through his own words'

31/10/2017

How African oligarchs steal from their countries.

08/10/2017

Whites on screens often present a distorted reality.

05/10/2017

“I wake up every day ready to fight to survive”

09/07/2017

The mini-arms races of the Karamoja.

09/07/2017

“There were trees there,” says Patience Ndifor of the Society for Initiatives in Rural Development and Environmental Protection (SIRDEP) which receives funding from Germany, over the phone.

19/06/2017

They had come, way back in the year 2000, to promise Lucianna Wanjiku, 58, that her mud shack in Soweto settlement in Kibera, Nairobi, -often called ‘the greatest slum on earth- would be rehabilitated.

19/06/2017

In de loopgraven van de corruptie.

10/06/2017

The Force against Zuma’s empire.

15/05/2017

Zuma’s ‘pro poor’ masquerade.

10/04/2017

De fake strijd van de nieuwe elite.

10/04/2017

Hoe de Zuid-Afrikaanse studentenbeweging tot zwijgen werd gebracht

13/03/2017

Searching for the paradise of coffee and milk

06/02/2017

Dutch photographer Ben Krewinkel continues the journey that took Frits Eisenloeffel to Mozambique after its victory and independence of 1975.

19/12/2016

The triangular floating structure was a beacon on the Lagos Lagoon. But after the Floating School collapsed, many questions remained unanswered. Was the building project on the Lagos Lagoon really the success it claimed to be?

07/11/2016

Girls abducted. Girls married off before they turn 15. Women denied equality before the law. Why do so many African societies move like a car on two left-side wheels?

06/09/2016

Revolution at a girls' school.

06/09/2016

The USA's mistake was 'not to plan for the day after.'

18/05/2016

The six cross-border investigations done by AIPC-ZAM teams ​shatter some dominant narratives.

18/05/2016

The ruby company writes to ZAM about ‘gross distortions’ in our story about mining in Montepuez. ZAM responds.

28/04/2016

It's two-and-a-half thousand dead rhinos vs. three-hundred-and-sixty-three dead poachers in the Kruger Park

28/04/2016

How villagers fight a mining pact from hell in the world’s richest ruby deposit.

12/04/2016

After his last undercover investigation, Ghana’s judicial authority sacked twenty-one judges and nineteen judicial service workers. A portrait of Anas Aremeyaw Anas.

12/04/2016

Mistrust of 'white capital' feeds the South African president's racial populism.

05/04/2016

Essay | Some activism does more harm than good.

05/04/2016

Visiting Kampala in the Netherlands.

31/03/2016

In an act of defiance, Nigerians decided not to drive on the left side any longer. British colonialism was history.

31/03/2016

Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 8-10 April, 2016: three days of music, literature, film, debate and art at the upcoming A.K.A. Afrikaanse Kultuur Fees.

22/03/2016

The Nelson Mandela, Oliver & Adelaide Tambo and Ahmed Kathrada Foundations have called on South Africa's erstwhile liberation movement, now majority party, the African National Congress, to correct itself.

22/03/2016

Seven teams of African journalists and Western colleagues unearthed hidden truths in the 2015 AIPC-ZAM investigations.

15/03/2016

AIPC and ZAM launch seven transnational investigations.

15/03/2016

Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, and Somalia | The neglected strategy in the War on Terror in Africa

15/12/2015

The War on Terror destroyed some buildings that the jihadis had left standing and left the population destitute.

15/12/2015

An instruction manual for those who want a slice of the donor money pie.

06/10/2015

The elite in Sierra Leone ruthlessly stole Ebola funds. When will the poor finally rebel?

06/10/2015

Africa, Africans art exhibit in Brazil evokes slave trade, sugar cane liquor, missionary zeal and voodoo.

18/08/2015

DRC | Francis Mbala was investigating treatment facilities for malaria patients in Kinshasa. It got him arrested.

18/08/2015

The French anti-jihadist forces’ new romance with Touareg rebels in the north is making Mali’s government very unhappy.

16/06/2015

In the early 2000’s, two serial killers roamed Swaziland. Only one of them was human.

16/06/2015

Images that won this years’ Contemporary African Photography Prize are full of gaps and wonder.

08/05/2015

Behind Botswana’s happy and prosperous image lie some disconcerting truths.

08/05/2015

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.

10/04/2015

Bola Tinubu is the kingmaker behind Nigeria's new ruling party and president.

10/04/2015

Nigeria | Some of Ahmad Salkida's childhood friends are now with Boko Haram.

03/02/2015

A white journalist goes out to investigate Ebola in Sierra Leone.

03/02/2015

DR Congo | The ‘Virunga’ movie shows the rangers of the gorilla reserve in the DRC as heroes. The real picture is far more complex.

18/11/2014

Kenya | Traditional families in ‘little Mogadishu’ reform their ‘westernised’ children by force.

18/11/2014

How the people of South West Cameroon resisted sell-out leaders, corrupt politicians and land-grabbing businessmen.

07/09/2014

Even if blander than the book, 'Half of a Yellow Sun' movie is a gripping tale of sisterhood and war.

07/09/2014

Nigeria | Investigation in Niger Delta reveals the businessmen behind the kidnappings.

25/06/2014

Interview | From activist to victim to consultant.

25/06/2014

A small band of idealists are trying to save African peer review from corruption and nepotism

29/04/2014

Officially, Cameroon produces only 2004 kilograms of gold per year. Unofficially, it's 180 000.

29/04/2014

How citizens once chased away as 'foreigners' came back with a vengeance

17/03/2014

Wangechi Mutu's magical wonderland

17/03/2014

West-Africa | Undercover inside the human traffic mafia

22/01/2014

Benin | How an undercover reporter was secretly smuggled back to safety

22/01/2014

West-Africa | Going through the Sahara and living to tell the tale

27/11/2013

Botswana | Mangled between development, the desert and international 'protectors'

27/11/2013

Somalia | The soup goes to the cattle, the rice to the traders

17/10/2013

Two million unbelievers aren't scared anymore

17/10/2013

The secrets of the Congolese elite's wealth

10/09/2013

Somalia | “I only had a little cut and it doesn’t bother me”

10/09/2013

Nigeria | Boko Haram reaps what state abuse and neglect have sown.

25/06/2013

How a community campaign in Uganda did what 'Stop Kony 2012' and US$ 2 billion aid money could not do.

25/06/2013

The pirates, smugglers and corrupt tycoons who help develop Africa

24/04/2013

African traders in Ghuangzou. Is Europe really yesterday's news?

24/04/2013