A corona-proof interactive walk will take you through the colonial history of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and South Africa.
07/09/2020
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Are you an African investigative journalist? Check out this call.
10/08/2020
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Images from Mozambique, the DRC and Angola offer the viewer a window from which to observe the brick-and-mortar residue left by the collapse of regimes.
10/08/2020
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And the winners are...
Blog /The five winners of CAP Prize 2020 have been announced.
14/09/2020
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Last year in the Netherlands, the ethnographic museums drew up guidelines for the restitution of artifacts stolen during colonialism. A special commission was formed to evaluate possible claims. Is this really such good news for the countries in which the art was made?
24/08/2020
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Shortly before the inaugural ZAM Nelson Mandela Lecture started, an iconic picture of the South African freedom fighter and statesman found its way to the stage of the Amsterdam City Theatre. It was shot by George Hallett, who died in Cape Town on July 1st 2020.
13/07/2020
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Nimbe is an anti-narcotic frontier film recently released on Netflix. It exposes the country's moral and social anarchy.
27/08/2020
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A German conservative politician has accused the Cameroonian historian and social scientist of antisemitism and demanded that an invitation for him to speak at a cultural festival in Germany be withdrawn.
20/07/2020
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Sistaaz of the Castle
Blog /A fashion book by transgender sex workers from Cape Town. Life on the edge of the Castle of Good Hope.
13/07/2020
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‘Sandwich’ helps tech giants avoid tax in Africa via the Netherlands and Ireland
13/07/2020
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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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Talking #cancelculture
Blog /Amid the furore about #cancelculture it may be appropriate to commemorate the outrage that targeted Achille Mbembe, Cameroonian historian and social scientist, and a profound thinker and visionary, earlier this year.
20/07/2020
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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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After braving seas, bandits and jungle, African migrants are now stuck at Mexico's border.
11/06/2020
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Questioning the video of George Floyd's murder.
02/06/2020
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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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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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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.