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English below Achtergronden bij het programma van de 5e ZAM Nelson Mandela Lezing Vertaalde teksten, zowel in Engels als Nederlands, alsmede een video-opname van dit programma, komen zo snel mogelijk online beschikbaar op www.zammagazine.com “But, if needs be, for this ideal I am prepared to die” Het programma opent met een korte passage uit het 6 uur durende slotbetoog van Nelson Mandela tijdens het proces dat hem en 8 anderen in 1964 tot levenslange gevangenisstraffen veroordeelde. De foto is van...
English below Achtergronden bij het programma van de 5e ZAM Nelson Mandela Lezing Vertaalde teksten, zowel in Engels als Nederlands, alsmede een video-opname van dit programma, komen zo snel mogelijk online beschikbaar op www.zammagazine.com “But, if needs be, for this ideal I am...
Humans adapt, move and connect. Environments change, landscapes can be challenging, and infrastructure is expected to support it all. An exhibition, on view only for one day at the 5th edition of the ZAM Nelson Mandela Lecture on February 16 in Amsterdam, gets into testing the relationship between humans, environment and infrastructure as climate change worsens, affecting those who are on the periphery -the vulnerable- the most. The beautiful Western Cape in South Africa is a home to incredible...
Humans adapt, move and connect. Environments change, landscapes can be challenging, and infrastructure is expected to support it all. An exhibition, on view only for one day at the 5th edition of the ZAM Nelson Mandela Lecture on February 16 in Amsterdam, gets into testing the...
In March this year, the Dutch royal family will travel to Kenya, a state visit that has sparked considerable controversy. Why is the Dutch government sending its ceremonial representatives to a country where human rights are systematically violated? In Kenya, street protests against soaring prices of food, fuel, and internet access—burdens that weigh heavily on ordinary citizens while the political elite maintains its opulent lifestyle—have been met with extreme police violence in recent months....
In March this year, the Dutch royal family will travel to Kenya, a state visit that has sparked considerable controversy. Why is the Dutch government sending its ceremonial representatives to a country where human rights are systematically violated? In Kenya, street protests against...
The Slavery Heritage Guide of The Cape (Gids Slavernijverleden van de Kaap) 2025, the latest instalment in the Mapping Slavery series on sites impacted by Dutch slavery and authored by Nancy Jouwe and Carine Zaayman, will be launched on 26 January at the Wereldmuseum in Amsterdam. “With the book launch we want to (…) bring into conversation the history and afterlives of Dutch colonialism in the Cape, but also how it shapes contemporary life in both the Cape and the Netherlands, as well as how it...
The Slavery Heritage Guide of The Cape (Gids Slavernijverleden van de Kaap) 2025, the latest instalment in the Mapping Slavery series on sites impacted by Dutch slavery and authored by Nancy Jouwe and Carine Zaayman, will be launched on 26 January at the Wereldmuseum in Amsterdam....
(English below) Het is bijna zover … De 5e editie van de ZAM Nelson Mandela Lezing is er bijna: in het Internationaal Theater Amsterdam op zondag 16 februari! Kom luisteren naar een nietsontziende speech door de Keniaanse onderzoeksjournalist John-Allan Namu. Over de opkomst van een nieuw Afrikaans zelfbewustzijn, de schreeuw om verandering van opkomende, jonge protestbewegingen op het continent en de bouwstenen voor een nieuwe relatie tussen Afrika en Europa. Namu heeft een uitdagende en...
(English below) Het is bijna zover … De 5e editie van de ZAM Nelson Mandela Lezing is er bijna: in het Internationaal Theater Amsterdam op zondag 16 februari! Kom luisteren naar een nietsontziende speech door de Keniaanse onderzoeksjournalist John-Allan Namu. Over de opkomst van een...
(English below) Het programma van de 5e editie van de ZAM Nelson Mandela Lezing op zondag 16 februari in het Internationaal Theater Amsterdam (ITA) is bekend! John-Allan Namu | Fra Fra Sound | Mthunzi Mvubu | Adriaan van Dis | Femke Halsema | Ikenna Azuike Het woord is tijdens deze onweerstaanbare manifestatie van solidariteit aan de Keniaanse onderzoeksjournalist en opiniemaker John-Allan Namu . Kom luisteren naar een vlammend betoog over het oplaaiende verzet van veelal door ‘Generatie Z’...
(English below) Het programma van de 5e editie van de ZAM Nelson Mandela Lezing op zondag 16 februari in het Internationaal Theater Amsterdam (ITA) is bekend! John-Allan Namu | Fra Fra Sound | Mthunzi Mvubu | Adriaan van Dis | Femke Halsema | Ikenna Azuike Het woord is tijdens deze...
ZAM’s 2025 Nelson Mandela Lecture event will, besides the main address by Kenyan investigative journalist John-Allan Namu, also feature a once-off performance of the legendary migration-themed song “Stimela”, composed by the late South African jazz great Hugh Masekela. The song, which portrays Black migrant workers who are separated from home, family and loved ones by an arduous train journey that ends at the cities’ coal mines, is especially relevant today as migration from poorer countries to...
ZAM’s 2025 Nelson Mandela Lecture event will, besides the main address by Kenyan investigative journalist John-Allan Namu, also feature a once-off performance of the legendary migration-themed song “Stimela”, composed by the late South African jazz great Hugh Masekela. The song,...
Nigeria's protected sanctuaries, home to rich flora and fauna, are increasingly under threat as state governments convert them into upscale residential estates for the elite. However, protests from Nigerian environmentalists and local communities are growing louder. As children from Delta State, Nigeria, Ambrose Igboke and Polycarp Chiwetalu grew up captivated by folktales of the lion as the king of the forest and the tortoise symbolising mischief, wisdom, and longevity. Whenever they visited...
Nigeria's protected sanctuaries, home to rich flora and fauna, are increasingly under threat as state governments convert them into upscale residential estates for the elite. However, protests from Nigerian environmentalists and local communities are growing louder. As children from...
In a new documentary, now showing in Dutch cinemas, Raoul Peck creates a space for the South African photographer to tell his own story. Raoul Peck is one of the world’s most celebrated documentary filmmakers. Since the 1970s, he has created socially engaged films on subjects that are as critical as they are diverse—ranging from the death of Congo leader Patrice Lumumba (Lumumba, Death of a Prophet) , to the Rwanda genocide (Sometimes in April) , the friendship between Marx and Engels (The Young...
In a new documentary, now showing in Dutch cinemas, Raoul Peck creates a space for the South African photographer to tell his own story. Raoul Peck is one of the world’s most celebrated documentary filmmakers. Since the 1970s, he has created socially engaged films on subjects that...
The Dutch King and Queen’s visit to Kenya’s murderous regime is being prepared in the run up to ZAM’s Nelson Mandela Lecture by Kenyan investigative journalist. “Trade is important, but at what cost?” asks upcoming Nelson Mandela Lecture speaker, Kenyan investigative journalist John-Allan Namu, in a comment on the planned royal visit by Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima to his country. In Kenya, over sixty people were killed by police recently and abductions and disappearances of...
The Dutch King and Queen’s visit to Kenya’s murderous regime is being prepared in the run up to ZAM’s Nelson Mandela Lecture by Kenyan investigative journalist. “Trade is important, but at what cost?” asks upcoming Nelson Mandela Lecture speaker, Kenyan investigative journalist...
Editor-in-Chief of the courageous Africa Uncensored media platform, John-Allan Namu, is set to spotlight Africa’s struggles for justice at the 2025 ZAM Nelson Mandela Lecture. As a Kenyan investigative journalist, Namu is well-acquainted with the horrors of power abuse, the machinations of genocidal politicians, the devastation wrought by climate change, and the forced migration of youth from nations misruled by uncaring, oppressive governments. Yet, while exposing wrongdoing, he also seeks...
Editor-in-Chief of the courageous Africa Uncensored media platform, John-Allan Namu, is set to spotlight Africa’s struggles for justice at the 2025 ZAM Nelson Mandela Lecture. As a Kenyan investigative journalist, Namu is well-acquainted with the horrors of power abuse, the...
Thembeka Heidi Sincuba’s forthcoming exhibition Umngqwambo at the Association for Visual Arts (AVA) in Cape Town (16 January - 27 February 2025) presents a reimagining of African initiation rites and the interstitial spaces between memory, transformation, and the body. Through an evocative interplay of oil painting, installation, and video, Sincuba constructs a sensory landscape that interrogates the deep tensions between tradition and modernity, the individual and the collective, the sacred and...
Thembeka Heidi Sincuba’s forthcoming exhibition Umngqwambo at the Association for Visual Arts (AVA) in Cape Town (16 January - 27 February 2025) presents a reimagining of African initiation rites and the interstitial spaces between memory, transformation, and the body. Through an...
[ text in Dutch below ] The 5th edition of the ZAM Nelson Mandela Lecture promises to be an unmissable event! Enjoy an afternoon filled with inspiring stories, exceptional cultural performances, engaging public discussions, a book market, and unexpected encounters, all leading to a provocative and thought-provoking lecture by multi-award-winning Kenyan investigative journalist John-Allan Namu. Book your ticket now. Thirty-five years after Nelson Mandela’s release in February 1990, we honour the...
[ text in Dutch below ] The 5th edition of the ZAM Nelson Mandela Lecture promises to be an unmissable event! Enjoy an afternoon filled with inspiring stories, exceptional cultural performances, engaging public discussions, a book market, and unexpected encounters, all leading to a...
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.” In the podcast, the broadcaster interviewed one of the Hotel Kremlin journalists who, undercover, investigated in Mali; ZAM investigations editor Evelyn Groenink and seasoned West Africa-reporter and ZAM associate Bram Posthumus. The podcast highlights the investigation’s...
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.” In the podcast, the broadcaster interviewed one of the Hotel...
[ tekst in Nederlands hieronder ] We are pleased to announce that the ZAM Nelson Mandela Lecture will be going ahead next year on Sunday 16 February 2025 at the International Theatre Amsterdam. It will be delivered by the award winning Kenyan investigative journalist John-Allan Namu. The lecture will be embedded in a multifaceted programme under the motto Face Forward, a programme packed with performances, talks, exhibition and more. 35 years after Nelson Mandela's release in February 1990, ZAM...
[ tekst in Nederlands hieronder ] We are pleased to announce that the ZAM Nelson Mandela Lecture will be going ahead next year on Sunday 16 February 2025 at the International Theatre Amsterdam. It will be delivered by the award winning Kenyan investigative journalist John-Allan...
Congratulations Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi and Sana Na N’Hada, two of six winners of the 2024 Prince Claus Impact Award! Va-Bene is a multidisciplinary artivist and curator from Ghana. She is also a transwoman in a country where the LGBTQIA+ community faces significant challenges. Sana Na H’Hada, from Guinea-Bissau is a filmmaker. Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi , known as crazinisT artisT, is a multidisciplinary artivist, curator, mentor, and philanthropist from Ghana. Raised in a deeply religious community, she...
Congratulations Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi and Sana Na N’Hada, two of six winners of the 2024 Prince Claus Impact Award! Va-Bene is a multidisciplinary artivist and curator from Ghana. She is also a transwoman in a country where the LGBTQIA+ community faces significant challenges. Sana...
[ text in English below ] Datum/Day Woensdag 18 december 2024 Tijd/Time 19.30 tot 21.00 uur Locatie/Venue Studio ZAM, Tussen de Bogen 66, Amsterdam Lees de artikelen op ZAM Boekenclub Vast al eens een aflevering, of allemaal, gezien van de VPRO-serie 'De Afro-Europeaan' met Ikenna Azuike. Zijn zoektocht naar wat het betekent om Europeaan met een Afrikaanse afkomst te zijn is een belangrijk thema in de recente literatuur geschreven door auteurs met Afrikaanse familiebanden. In het Engels worden ze...
[ text in English below ] Datum/Day Woensdag 18 december 2024 Tijd/Time 19.30 tot 21.00 uur Locatie/Venue Studio ZAM, Tussen de Bogen 66, Amsterdam Lees de artikelen op ZAM Boekenclub Vast al eens een aflevering, of allemaal, gezien van de VPRO-serie 'De Afro-Europeaan' met Ikenna...
Too early to speak of an ‘African Spring’, but the leaves of protest are budding. "For weeks, large numbers of people across Mozambique have been protesting the results of the presidential elections, as seen here in Maputo. The elections, held on October 9, were reportedly won by Frelimo with 70% of the vote. Protesters sing the national anthem, bang pans, blow whistles, and hold up signs. They are responding to Facebook calls from presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane, who fled the country and...
Too early to speak of an ‘African Spring’, but the leaves of protest are budding. "For weeks, large numbers of people across Mozambique have been protesting the results of the presidential elections, as seen here in Maputo. The elections, held on October 9, were reportedly won by...
Editor-in-Chief of the courageous Africa Uncensored media platform, John-Allan Namu, is set to spotlight Africa’s struggles for justice at the 2025 ZAM Nelson Mandela Lecture. As a Kenyan investigative journalist, Namu is well-acquainted with the horrors of power abuse, the machinations of genocidal politicians, the devastation wrought by climate change, and the forced migration of youth from nations misruled by uncaring, oppressive governments. Yet, while exposing wrongdoing, he also seeks...
Editor-in-Chief of the courageous Africa Uncensored media platform, John-Allan Namu, is set to spotlight Africa’s struggles for justice at the 2025 ZAM Nelson Mandela Lecture. As a Kenyan investigative journalist, Namu is well-acquainted with the horrors of power abuse, the...
Both tender and melancholic, the French-Cameroonian photographer series interrogates the ideas of love. Naam Na La , takes its name from the Wolof expression which translates to "I long for you". “Love is undeniably common and universal, but also overused and overrepresented in our visual cultures,” begins the photographer Charlotte Yonga. “As a feeling, it’s capable of great amplitude and density, but also exists in its deficiencies, flaws, ambiguities and vanities.” With these musings in mind,...
Both tender and melancholic, the French-Cameroonian photographer series interrogates the ideas of love. Naam Na La , takes its name from the Wolof expression which translates to "I long for you". “Love is undeniably common and universal, but also overused and overrepresented in our...
