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Tuesday - 29th April 2014

The ZAM Chronicle

The Mining, the Mountains and the Posters on the Wall

The Mining, the Mountains and the Posters on the Wall

By ZAM

Kitsch posters and ghosts of the past surround images of hard working lives in Sammy Baloji’s dazzling Congolese landscape. More...



Editorial  

Editorial

The beautiful horizon



The girls behind the railway line  

The Girls behind the Railway Line

By Selase Kove-Seyram

Six clients per night make up for what your parents can’t give you. More...



Rich clan, poor clan  

Rich Clan, Poor Clan

By Muno Mohamed Gedi

‘Servants’ claim rights to fertile lands in Somalia. More...



The missing gold of Cameroon  

The Missing Gold of Cameroon

By Chief Bisong Etahoben

Officially, Cameroon produces only two thousand and four hundred kilograms of gold per year. Unofficially, one hundred and eighty thousand. More...



Invisible Borders  

Invisible Borders

By Lara Bourdin

Trans-African artists take a road trip from Lagos to Sarajevo. More...



Fighting terrorism by arresting everybody  

Fighting Terror by Arresting Everybody

By Evelyn Groenink

Four thousand people were arrested for looking like Somalis. More...

 
Hidden camera exposes corrupt officials in Ghana  

Extra ZAM Clip Favourites

Hidden camera exposes corrupt officials in Ghana
This movie recently premiered in Accra’s National Theatre

 
Making fun of Jacob Zuma  

Making fun of Jacob Zuma
See the video that went viral in South Africa

 

ZAM Report

The Saboteurs of Good Governance

By Ramata Soré

ZAM Essay

The Fat White Chicken’s Paradise

By Cecilia Cachette

ZAM Art

Mandela Landscape

By Anton Corbijn & Berend Strik

Mandela Landscape
 
This Issue

» The Mining, the Mountains and the Posters on the Wall

» The Beautiful Horizon

» The Girls behind the Railway Line

» Rich Clan, Poor Clan

» The Missing Gold of Cameroon

» Invisible Borders

» Fighting Terror by Arresting Everybody

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Web latest Web latest
Rwanda remembers+++ And Rwanda oppresses dissent+++ 23000 migrants died trying to reach Europe+++ Multinationals’ tax evasion dwarfs development aid+++ Madonna earns the wrath of Joyce Banda+++ “Uganda doing Israel’s dirty work”+++
 
Uncle Tom Uncle Tom
How two African journalists were seduced, wrapped up and taken to Paris by the French multinational Schneider Electric. More...
 
ZAM recommends ZAM recommends
‘Happy’ compilation+++ The pirates in the Somali jails+++ ‘James Bond’ investigates spying dictators+++ The US war in Africa+++ Donor aid for Uganda in anti-gay times+++ Google maps gets continent wrong+++ Kwani? brings literature into schools+++ Uganda TV tackles illegal abortion+++
 
Tweets Tweets
@carienduplessis: “I don't know stress. There is no word for stress in Zulu." and "I don't cry - at all. A man never cries" - Jacob Zuma in Sowetan p3

@SMSMediaUganda: BREAKING: #Teachers in Butambala confirm they have been paid. Even those who had not been paid for months say all monies have been cleared.
 
The Contrarian The Contrarian
It is competition for state salaries, not tribal hatred that is behind the recent violence in South Sudan, says former child soldier and peace negotiator John Penn de Ngong. More...
 
Quotes Quotes
“So far my team has arrested more than 2,000 suspects, some of whom are on the police’s most-wanted list. (…) the process of mopping up refugees from urban areas has begun in earnest.”
Kenya Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government, Ole Lenku on his ‘Unstoppable War on Terror’ in The Standard, 5 April 2014
 
“Nobody can Islamise Nigeria, if Allah wanted he would have made everybody Muslims, so also with Christianity. God would have made everybody Christian if He wanted.”
Sa’ad Abubakar, Sultan of Sokoto, Nigeria, and the head of Nigeria’s Muslim community, at the Golden Jubilee lecture of the Jamatu Nasril Islam (JNI) in Kaduna, on Sunday 13 April 2014.
 
 
 
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