How African oligarchs steal from their countries.
08/10/2017
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Why I prefer African filmmakers
Chronicle #32 /Whites on screens often present a distorted reality.
05/10/2017
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20/09/2017
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Special - No Hearts, No Minds
Chronicle #17 /Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, and Somalia | The neglected strategy in the War on Terror in Africa
15/12/2015
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'The ICC is too valuable to fail'
Chronicle #32 /Tjitske Lingsma on her book All Rise!
05/09/2017
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All Rise!
Chronicle #32 /The high ambitions of the International Criminal Court and the harsh reality.
05/09/2017
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Kenya | Gentrifying Kibera
Chronicle #30 /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
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Greener pastures
Chronicle #31 /The war for grazing lands in Africa.
09/07/2017
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Ghana | Ghost town
Chronicle #31 /We are in a national security crisis.
09/07/2017
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The Ugandan tribes who need the guns
Chronicle #31 /The mini-arms races of the Karamoja.
09/07/2017
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Nigeria | How oil elite abandoned the farming lands
Chronicle #31 /“Lack of clear authority” left the time bomb ticking since the 1950s.
09/07/2017
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Somalia | There is no government here
Chronicle #31 /“I wake up every day ready to fight to survive”
09/07/2017
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Cameroon | The invisible trees of Bamenda
Chronicle #30 /“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
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DRC | Funding exploitation
Chronicle #30 /The World Bank in the DRC.
19/06/2017
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Uganda | The general and the naked women
Chronicle #30 /Outside Peyero bar on Gulu Municipality’s Langara road in north Uganda is a car which, by the last letter on its licence plate, belongs to State House, the official residence of the president.
19/06/2017
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In 2011, ZAM published photographic works of Swaziland artist Nandipha Mntambo. Her work is now exhibited in the recently opened Zeitz MOCAA Museum in Cape Town.
05/10/2017
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"This story serves as a warning that the oppressed can become oppressors."
02/10/2017
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Q&A with Kadara Enyeasi
Blog /No vintage anymore, UNSEEN shows exclusively photographic work that was made over the last three years.
24/09/2017
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Atang Tshikare at Afrovibes
Events /Meet Atang Tshikare. The award-winning South African artist and 'creator' is this year's artist-in-residence at the Afrovibes Festival in the Netherlands.
25/09/2017
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Togo | Gnassingbé to-go
Blog /An uprising against a dictator. Angry people in the streets. Seven protestors shot dead by soldiers.
24/08/2017
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In one more week the first actors, dancers, visual artists, fashion stylists and poets from South Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Congo will be arriving at the Afrovibes festival.
20/09/2017
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The second volume of Queer Africa, with contributions from 26 African countries, will be launched at the ZAM offices on November 20, 2017 between 17h00 and 19h00.
20/09/2017
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Award winning South African productions at this year’s festival in The Hague.
10/09/2017
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Congratulations to all winners of the CAP Prize 2017: Emmanuelle Andrianjafy (Madagascar, based in Senegal), Girma Berta (Ethiopia), Lebohang Kganye (South Africa), Fethi Sahraoui (Algeria) and Georges Senga (DR Congo).
11/06/2017
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On the 17th of August 1982 the South African freedom fighter, journalist and scholar Ruth First was assassinated by parcel bomb sent to her by apartheid dead squads. Thirty-five years later, First is remembered as a courageous and stubborn activist against white supremacy and male domination.
17/08/2017
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Last Friday's opening of Zanele Muholi's exhibition at the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum saw hundreds of art lovers and friends of the South African 'visual activist' attending the ceremony.
10/07/2017
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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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Blog
Say it loud!
Build Solidarity. Join ZAM.
Yasser Booley
An unspoken agreementMy name is Yasser Booley. (…) My story as a photographer begins with the gift of a camera by my father in my penultimate year in high school in 1992.”
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.
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Remembering Khadija Saye. The artist who tragically died in Grenfell Tower.
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Signs of Solidarity
The ExhibitionIt started with a handful of activists, it turned into one of the biggest solidarity movements The Netherlands ever had. An initial affinity with the South African Boers turned into a massive engagement with the black majority. ‘Signs of Solidarity- The Exhibition’ is a moving account of 30 years of protest and debate, boycott and friendship.
