The Amsterdam-based South African artist Neo Matloga is nominated for the 2019 de Volkskrant Visual Art Award. ‘For me ZAM magazine was the first magazine reflecting people of colour. (…) It connects me to my people.’
18/04/2019
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Santu Mofokeng: storyteller
Blog /“It took me less than half a minute to feel blown away by Mofokeng’s photo’s”, writes Laurens Nijzink.
26/03/2019
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Mozambique | Millions of UN dollars fail to reach villages fighting to survive in Mozambique
Chronicle #39 /Withholding of promised funds left Mozambican communities to battle cyclones, floods and drought alone for years.
26/03/2019
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For five years, Ben Krewinkel has been building an ever growing collection of 20th century African photobooks. The 500 to 550 titles in his possession reflect the changing visual representation of the continent. Krewinkel’s collection is visible online; he is also working on a book.
26/03/2019
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The Ivorian novelist, playwright, poet and former Minister of Culture died on March 9, 2019, in Abidjan.
09/04/2019
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She is one of the driving forces behind the country’s and continent’s literary renaissance.
18/03/2019
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Photographers: Pieter Boersma, Sander Stoepker, Rachel Corner, Dik Bol.
19/02/2019
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Watch the South African writer and opinionista Sisonke Msimang lecture.
19/02/2019
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Nelson Mandela Lecture Stamp
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A born speaker, music, dance, film and installations. This is your guide to the 2019 Nelson Mandela Lecture, organised by ZAM.
04/02/2019
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The Faso Dance Théâtre will perform an excerpt of Kirina at the Nelson Mandela Lecture. Librettist Felwine Sarr explores a mythical West African story that inspired the choreography.
04/02/2019
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The Lecture is the grand finale of the Mandela100 Centenary celebration and the beginning of an annual tradition.
08/01/2019
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09.02.19 | Talking Mandela
Events /Southeast City District Chairperson Tanja Jadnanansing hosts a conversation with Sisonke Msimang.
04/02/2019
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First we were accused of ‘gross distortions’. Now the mining company gives in.
04/02/2019
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It was the good old days, and I was a small boy smothered by the smorgasbord of sensations symbolic of the age of wonder.
22/01/2019
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Nigeria | When deaths become too much
Chronicle #39 /Why Nigerian doctors escape a rotten health system.
22/01/2019
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What would a borderless world look like? It sounds like utopia but in his essay, South Africa-based Cameroonian thinker Achille Mbeme makes the realities of borders, restrictions and the right to move denied to most people in the world look far more surreal than the alternative.
22/01/2019
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The official Nelson Mandela Lecture portrait of Sisonke Msimang © Dutch photographer Rachel Corner.
19/02/2019
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Sisonke Msimang in 10 Quotes
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Check out programme, participating artists, CV of the speaker, sponsors, the installations and the introduction by the ZAM chairperson Annelies Verdoolaege.
19/02/2019
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Mozambican artist João Roxo wants to ship charity back to the ‘North’ and say ‘thanks but no thanks’
18/12/2018
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‘We shall not be silenced’
Blog /We are shocked by the assassination of our Ghanaian colleague and investigative journalist Ahmed Hussein Suale.
22/01/2019
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On Monday 17 December, 2018, our colleague Estacio Valoi and his team were arrested by the Mozambican army.
20/12/2018
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Evelien Groenink talks about the making and the impact of her book published earlier this year. In her groundbreaking book Incorruptible, ZAM investigations editor Evelyn Groenink exposes the inconvenient truths behind the murder of three Southern African freedom fighters.
06/12/2018
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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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Maria di Latte III by Ayana V. Jackson
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Emmanuelle Andrianjafy
Nothing's in VainIn 2011, Malagasy photographer Emmanuelle Andrianjafy arrived in the harbour city of Dakar, situated on the westernmost African coast, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. This relocation marked the beginning of her interest in photography.
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.
Remember the Future
A special ZAM issue (Dutch)Adriaan van Dis Marlene Dumas Anton Corbijn Bram Vermeulen Berend Strik Lieve Joris Conny Braam Gerda Havertong Kadir van Lohuizen Sander Veeneman and others. Order your copy.