After braving seas, bandits and jungle, African migrants are now stuck at Mexico's border.
11/06/2020
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The work of Nigerian artist Abdulrazaq Awofeso is the main attraction of the exhibition City Life in the Dutch city of Arnhem. Two thousand small faces to tell you that one shouldn’t generalise.
25/06/2020
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Celebrating the five year anniversary of Juul van der Laan’s documentary Multiverse Ghana with a free viewing
23/06/2020
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This month 35 years ago, a rain of bullets by a South African death squad ended the life and career of artist and activist Thami Mnyele. The Thami Mnyele Foundation, that welcomed 127 African artists in its studio in Amsterdam, kept his ideas alive.
15/06/2020
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Questioning the video of George Floyd's murder.
02/06/2020
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A review of Guy Woueté's exhibition at De Brakke Grond.
02/06/2020
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George Floyd is not dead
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"Budgets designated for development ended up serving the migration agenda", Kiza Magenda and Yannicke Goris write.
02/06/2020
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Please join us in our search for new ideas, perspectives and analysis—the building blocks for a better world.
14/04/2020
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The documentary Stop Filming Us won the Dutch Movies Matter Award and received received favourable reviews [by the Dutch press]. Unbelievable, according to postcolonial media scholar Emiel Martens. ‘Postema throws the discussion about the Western view of Congo at least ten years back in time.’
04/05/2020
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The significance of Binyavanga Wainaina, the Kenyan writer who died a year ago on May 21, 2019, cannot be underestimated.
25/05/2020
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"Conny Braam heeft een vaardige pen, spannend en gedoceerd, maar als het moet met de kracht van een breekijzer."—Adriaan van Dis
11/05/2020
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Notes on Corona | Stardust
Blog /"I think my neighbors are dead. I peer into their windows but all I can see is darkness."
06/05/2020
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Nigeria had been waiting for it, expecting it, anticipating it. But no one knew exactly as it came in.
06/05/2020
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'The government must put itself into the shoes of its citizens and residents', say ex SA Revenue Service employees.
04/05/2020
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Our friends of Nairobi based The Elephant bring the latest factual updates about the Coronavirus in African countries.
25/03/2020
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In his Corona Diaries, Part 1, Ayo Adéné clears his heart.
22/04/2020
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'As a matter of survival leaders can and should propose to their societies a new idea of Africa.'
21/04/2020
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"Hammam Diaries by Mehdy Mariouch is a trip back in time."
27/05/2020
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"Each of us remembers those photographers who were almost smiling, where our parents took us to immortalize a celebration, an event, or simply to give us a portrait for an administrative procedure."
26/05/2020
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25 projects/photographers are nominated for this year's CAP Prize for Contemporary African Photography.
21/04/2020
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His name is Mohamed Yousif and he lives in Khartum, Sudan. Maral Noshad Sharifi traced the guy on the winning picture, made by Yasuyoshi Chiba, of this years World Press Photo Award.
22/04/2020
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The Eyes of Melinda Gates
Blog /It’s going to be terrible, she says. People will be dying in the streets. Have you seen the images from Ecuador? Piles of bodies. It will be like that in Africa.
14/04/2020
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Notes on Corona in Africa 2
Blog /From 'let's gather and pray' in Tanzania to 'compassionate leadership' in South Africa. A continent fighting a virus in a context of extreme poverty, food shortage and homelessness. But then: why are the figures still relatively low?
07/04/2020
Build Solidarity. Join ZAM.
Sandberg Instituut—Graduation 2020
Tsoku Maela
Morphing the Stories of the PastTsoku Maela (1989, Lebowakgomo, South Africa) went to a film school with no intention to become an artist. When he started to make pictures, he found that the self-portraits he shot impacted positively on his manic depressions. Finally, he started writing as well. It all helps to better understand the world, to raise issues people fear to talk about and break through stigmas.