African kleptocratic rulers plunder natural resources and state budgets with the assistance of international and local business people.
04/06/2019
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The Associates | How We Did It
Chronicle #40 /Our researchers intimidated and detained, whistleblowers killed in suspect car accidents, legal threats and numerous ‘no comments.’
05/06/2019
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Framer Framed need your support
12/06/2019
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Troubled Waters
Blog /The Amsterdam canals are once more a site of memory. The Black Heritage Tours and Afrovibes explore the history of colonialism and slavery.
05/06/2019
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When Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina came out as a gay man he apologised to his late mother for never telling her the truth.
05/06/2019
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This year’s edition of the Holland Festival has the signatures of two African associate artists.
30/05/2019
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South African photographer Nontsikelelo Veleko has given one of her images to ZAM as a gesture of appreciation for our work.
14/05/2019
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For poor women, doing sex work to survive is the rule rather than the exception.
07/05/2019
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After protests Kenyans were finally able to watch this ground-breaking feature film about a lesbian love in their cinemas. But only for one week.
14/05/2019
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For five years, Ben Krewinkel has been building an ever growing collection of 20th century African photobooks. The 500 to 550 titles in his possession reflect the changing visual representation of the continent. Krewinkel’s collection is visible online; he is also working on a book.
26/03/2019
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Mozambique | Millions of UN dollars fail to reach villages fighting to survive in Mozambique
Chronicle #39 /Withholding of promised funds left Mozambican communities to battle cyclones, floods and drought alone for years.
26/03/2019
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The Ivorian novelist, playwright, poet and former Minister of Culture died on March 9, 2019, in Abidjan.
09/04/2019
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Santu Mofokeng: storyteller
Blog /“It took me less than half a minute to feel blown away by Mofokeng’s photo’s”, writes Laurens Nijzink.
26/03/2019
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She is one of the driving forces behind the country’s and continent’s literary renaissance.
18/03/2019
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Photographers: Pieter Boersma, Sander Stoepker, Rachel Corner, Dik Bol.
19/02/2019
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Watch the South African writer and opinionista Sisonke Msimang lecture.
19/02/2019
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Nelson Mandela Lecture Stamp
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First we were accused of ‘gross distortions’. Now the mining company gives in.
04/02/2019
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It was the good old days, and I was a small boy smothered by the smorgasbord of sensations symbolic of the age of wonder.
22/01/2019
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Nigeria | When deaths become too much
Chronicle #39 /Why Nigerian doctors escape a rotten health system.
22/01/2019
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What would a borderless world look like? It sounds like utopia but in his essay, South Africa-based Cameroonian thinker Achille Mbeme makes the realities of borders, restrictions and the right to move denied to most people in the world look far more surreal than the alternative.
22/01/2019
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The official Nelson Mandela Lecture portrait of Sisonke Msimang © Dutch photographer Rachel Corner.
19/02/2019
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The Contrarian
That's just not right
- Behind the NGO Attack | Elnathan John
- The Rainbow Myth | Nomalanga Mkhize
- Taking sex workers off the streets won't help fight HIV | Dianne Massawe
- "It’s not poverty that is to blame for the weak African responses to Ebola, but bad leadership" | Professor Oyewale Tomori
- Cyril Ramaphosa "not solely to blame for Marikana massacre" | Steven Friedman
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Maria di Latte III by Ayana V. Jackson
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Emmanuelle Andrianjafy
Nothing's in VainIn 2011, Malagasy photographer Emmanuelle Andrianjafy arrived in the harbour city of Dakar, situated on the westernmost African coast, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. This relocation marked the beginning of her interest in photography.
Between bitter almonds and good hope
South Africa today. A ZAM special.More than two decades after South Africa’s transition to democracy the country is in disarray. The ideals of a revolution – non-racialism, non-sexism, non-tribalism and a constitutional democracy – are being betrayed by an elitist faction under the leadership of president Jacob Zuma.
Remember the Future
A special ZAM issue (Dutch)Adriaan van Dis Marlene Dumas Anton Corbijn Bram Vermeulen Berend Strik Lieve Joris Conny Braam Gerda Havertong Kadir van Lohuizen Sander Veeneman and others. Order your copy.