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ZAM has joined the Ugandan civil rights groups Agora and the African Institute for Investigative Journalism (AIIJ) in condemning the arrests of journalists Agather Atuhaire and Godwin Toko, while calling for their immediate release. Atuhaire, Toko, and other civil rights activists were detained by Ugandan police on Thursday during a march in the capital, Kampala.
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In October 2024, months after ZAM published ‘Hotel Kremlin’, the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle produced a podcast on the investigation, highlighting its “grim picture of life under military dictatorships in the Sahel.”
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Too early to speak of an ‘African Spring’, but the leaves of protest are budding.
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- By Evelyn Groenink
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South African activist Simon Nkoli (1957 – 1998) played a key role in getting his country to adopt the first constitution in the world that guarantees equal rights for LGBTIQ+ people.
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- By Tinashe Mushakavanhu
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In an imaginary interview, composed from actual quotes, the late Zimbawean writer Dambudzo Marechera (1952 – 1987) comments on the troubles his country is facing today.
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Vanaf woensdag 16 oktober gaat de Nigeriaans/Britse programmamaker Ikenna Azuike in een nieuwe serie op zoek naar Afrikaanse diaspora gemeenschappen in het Verenigd Koninkrijk (Nigerianen), Portugal (Kaapverdianen), Finland (Somaliërs), Cyprus (Soedanezen) en Belgie (Congolezen). Maar Azuike (45) gaat vooral ook op zoek naar zichzelf.
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Award-winning author and BBC broadcaster Zeinab Badawi will be in conversation with fellow writer Vamba Sherif about her new book, dealing with a history from the dawn of humanity to independence.
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Recently released statistics on African population growth tell a different story to what the prophets of doom want us to believe. In no other continent is population growth falling as fast as in Africa. While in 1960 African women bore an average of 6.6 children, today it is 3.8. By 2050, the annual UN report calculates, it will drop further to 2.6.
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In a new 6 part series for Dutch television, Ikenna Azuike travels through various African communities in Europe in search of the meaning of home.
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- By Saurabh Sinha & Melat Getachew
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What must happen to turn Africa’s strong population growth into prosperity for all?
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“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”
Milan Kundera
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South Africa has a strange tendency to put total opposites in the international spotlight. Bad boy Paul Kruger, a Boer hero who fought both the imperialist British and the country's original inhabitants, thrilled thousands of Dutch supporters in the early 1900s. Freedom fighters like Nelson and Winnie Mandela, Archbishop Tutu, or white human rights lawyer Bram Fischer inspired international solidarity movements decades later with their principled struggle against racism and oppression.
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Removed from the facts, the firestorm around Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is the latest attempt by the right-wing in the West to find fodder for its culture war.
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During the second Olympic Games in 1904 in St. Louis, USA, African athletes were still excluded from official competition. However, they did participate in a kind of shadow games, “athletic events for savages.” In a retrospective in this issue, sports historian Francois Cleophas recalls this “unique spectacle” in which spectators witnessed how the “savage tribes” had to pelt each other with stones in one of the events.
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Anti-government protests have spread to Uganda, where ordinary people are tired of passively accepting elite misrule. “(We) are called bazukulu, meaning ‘grandchildren.’ (…) We are certainly beyond the days of being an infantilized citizenry.”
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The answer to that question reveals the surprising story of a 1904 marathon – and exposes the history of racism and white supremacy that characterised the Olympics in its early days.
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- By Oyunga Pala
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The crux of the struggle lies in reclaiming the soul of Kenya from a generation that became malevolent during public duty.
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- By Nadege Bizimungu
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When Christian missionaries established schools in different parts of East Africa, they constructed the narrative that Black hair was unsightly, ungodly and untameable. In many postcolonial schools this still seems to be the norm.
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This past week was the week of Kenya’s youth, which came out in thousands on the streets of Nairobi to reject austerity, new heavy taxation, and government corruption. What follows is reporter Ngina Kirori’s diary of the protests.
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William Ruto has gravely misjudged the nerve of his countrymen. The man who narrowly sailed to Kenya’s presidency in 2022, is trying to shove a sketchy legislative proposal down Kenyan throats. The Finance Bill 2024 aims to raise 346 billion Kenyan shillings to service debt and fund development and has been met with public outcry and widespread protests.
The movement to #RejectFinanceBill2024 is being led by media-savvy, urban Gen-Z youth.
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During the ethnic violence in Kenya in 2008, the church in Kiambaa became a symbol of the horror that shook the country. Kikuyu who had sought refuge there were killed on New Year’s Day when Kalenjin youths set the building alight.
