A weekly overview of interesting analysis and findings on the coronavirus in Africa.
30/03/2020
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“I am not interested in revolutionary speeches by corrupt and ineffective leaders who have lived, along with their families in stupendous wealth while their countries have remained beggar nations.”
10/03/2020
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Open for admission | F for Fact, Sandberg Instituut
17/02/2020
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South African poet James Matthews reads 'Freedom's Child'.
17/02/2020
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A new documentary shows the city as an assault on all your senses. It's loud, smelly, full of contrast, tasty and hot. And there is street art everywhere.
03/02/2020
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Coverage of the #LuandaLeaks revelations have steered clear of the art world dealings of Isabel dos Santos’s husband, and art luminaries have largely defended Dokolo’s reputation.
03/02/2020
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In June 1985, 35 years ago, Thamsanqa Thami Mnyele, a South African artist and activist, living and working in exile in Botswana, was killed by death squads of the Apartheid regime.
09/01/2020
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Months-long investigation by our partner publication Premium Times (Lagos) that included visits to over a dozen cattle farms across Oyo State, showed child labour routinely boosts the production and perhaps profits of FrieslandCampina.
03/02/2020
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‘The Law should be Unbound’
Blog /If the courts in Nigeria were working, they’d take the case of 47 men accused of homosexuality, scrutinize it, then tear it apart.
16/01/2020
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ZAM Editor’s Choice. Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s widely applauded feature film, is part of this year’s editon of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
16/01/2020
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Reflecting on white joy, black celebration, and the meaning of the Springbok win at the 2019 Rugby World Cup.
11/11/2019
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Essay | Blacks from Elsewhere and the Right to Abode
Chronicle #41 /Sorrowing over the treatment of migrants, the Cameroonian philosopher calls for Africa to adopt a pro-migration stance, phase out colonial borders and become ‘a vast space of circulation’.
31/10/2019
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Book Extract | One Day in Bethlehem
Chronicle #41 /Imprisoned before the end of Apartheid for a crime he did not commit, Fusi Mofokeng finds a changing nation.
31/10/2019
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An event hosted by the Royal Africa Society in London will explore how African creatives are taking up increasingly prominent – and political – positions.
16/01/2020
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How black bodies move from pain to healing and thrive as centres of joy.
06/11/2019
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The winners of PRIDE PHOTO AWARD, an annual international contest for photos about sexual and gender diversity, were announced last Friday, November 1, 2019, in Amsterdam.
06/11/2019
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Review | Ng'ambo Atlas. The Other Side of Zanzibar’s Stone Town
Chronicle #41 /"… In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province ..."
31/10/2019
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38 heroes of resistance, black women and women of colour, are brought together in the artist’s new exhibition.
31/10/2019
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On-Trade-Off is a long-term artistic research project by an international group of artists, filmmakers and researchers.
31/10/2019
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Katumba Badru Sultan’s image ‘In Her Own World' was chosen as the winning photograph of the Uganda Press Photo Award 2019.
28/10/2019
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Mugabe Was Not A Revolutionary
Chronicle #41 /In the future, when history is written about Robert Mugabe, it will not be about a black man raised by a single mother, who defied all odds in racially segregated Southern Rhodesia to pursue an education at the highest levels. Neither will it be a history of an articulate black African teacher-turned-politician who spent around a decade in prison for challenging white colonial racism and working for the betterment of black Zimbabweans. It will be for the four decades that Robert Mugabe was at the helm of power in post-colonial Zimbabwe, in which his rule was anything but admirable.
17/09/2019
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The African Investigative Publishing Collective and ZAM will present their groundbreaking reports on kleptocracy at an international journalists’ gathering in Hamburg in September.
02/09/2019
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BE GLAD U R FREE
Blog /An old man with 9 fingers and twelve toes once told me a story while we shared a blanket and an oil lamp at a pastoral congregation one night.
11/07/2019
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Essay | How to read about Africa
Chronicle #41 /On 21 May 2019 after suffering a stroke, Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina (48) passed away. On Thursday 24th October, 2019, a celebration of his life and works will be held at Studio ZAM. Guests will focus on two of his brilliant essays: ‘How to Write About Africa’, about the framing of ‘Africa’ in Western media, and ‘I Am a Homosexual, Mom.’
As a kick-off for that meeting Dutch journalist Wim Bossema, who has been writing on ‘anything African’ since 1980, mainly for the Dutch daily de Volkskrant, shifts his focus from writing to reading.
02/09/2019
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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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Trailer | Black Man No Cry (in the ghetto) by Muse Pictures.
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.
Maria di Latte III by Ayana V. Jackson
Exclusive poster based on an image of an artwork by Ayana V. Jackson.Order here
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.
