In the Mozambican province wracked by a violent insurgency, the convenient labelling of those rising up against the predatory elite paints a picture that is far from reality.
31/03/2021
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Coming soon—our new video series #ImagineMandela, in which we ask changemakers in the Netherlands: ‘what is your ideal?’
06/04/2021
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For more than three decades, ZAM's Investigations Editor Evelyn Groenink researched the murder of Paris ANC representative Dulcie September in 1988. The complex backgrounds of this gruesome act presented in Groenink's book Incorruptible were long ignored. Until now.
22/03/2021
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A conversation with the UCT's Dr. Divine Fuh on the impact of the recently destroyed archives.
21/04/2021
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This group show investigates everyday objects and aspects of our daily lives that inspire the emergence of creativity —as well as the unexpected mediums that serve as canvases.
21/04/2021
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In her first solo exhibition, Lola Keyezua (1988, Angola) explores the sexuality of the elderly by focusing on social, cultural and religious influences.
21/04/2021
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Late president John Magafuli never was the anti-corruption saviour international media claimed.
25/03/2021
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This year’s online edition of Movies that Matter features at least four films of interest to our readership.
06/04/2021
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Billions of dollars disappear through cartel schemes.
06/04/2021
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No others, same time in African Cosmologies. Photography, Time, and the Other.
08/03/2021
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The launch of the #ImagineMandela video series in preparation for the ZAM Nelson Mandela Lecture 2022.
09/03/2021
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Here's a digital publication hailing Kenya's emerging designers, illustrators, writers, stylists and photographers coming together in times of COVID-19.
23/02/2021
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Depicting women—their poses, their attire, their hairstyles—differently.
17/03/2021
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The djelis took cultures and traditions across the African continent and even the world. They even resonate in the works of rappers and spoken word artists.
17/03/2021
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ZAM launches Bureau Afrika
Blog /Platform for Investigative Journalism. Stories for Change.
02/02/2021
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When a policeman kills your son and there is nothing you can do. The closed doors around Catherine Ndlovu.
15/02/2021
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Dambudzo Marechera still inspires those who fight for freedom and justice in the postcolony.
23/02/2021
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Open for Applications: New Temporary Programme Ecologies of Transformation, Sandberg Instituut
Blog /'The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible' — Toni Cade Bambara.
23/02/2021
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The relationship between farmers and herders has grown increasingly tense amid contestations over land, crop damage, cattle stealing, and violence.
23/02/2021
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In this online live event, Rose Wambui Kamande, Odilia Anyachi Okonga, Vamba Sherif and Rahab Njeri will discuss life and work, especially his latest work, The Perfect Nine with the Kenyan giant world literature.
23/02/2021
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The South African Revenue Service (SARS) was probably the greatest success story of the country’s post-Apartheid era. Former President Zuma saw in SARS a threat to his interests and his kleptocratic clique.
20/01/2021
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While his music was political, he did not want to be a ‘state composer’.
02/02/2021
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The strategies used by the Nigerian military and the skills they learn in the fight against Boko Haram are based on old teachings from colonial-era wars.
26/01/2021
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A death sentence for the rank and file of poaching syndicates in southern Africa is inhuman and unconstitutional.
27/01/2021
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Professor Andrew MacLeod is using DNA technology to track down, and hopefully prosecute, foreign aid workers who have sexually abused women and girls in Central and West Africa.
01/02/2021
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Blog
Say it loud!
- 23.04.21-05.06.21, Amsterdam | Never Too Old To Cut The Banana When Erected
- 17.04.21—29.05.21, Cape Town | Art of Everyday Things
- 26.04.21, Studio ZAM, 13h00 - 14h00 CEST | The Cape of Fires. Loss and Solidarity
- DR Congo | Murder of an Ambassador: Who Benefits?
- Will South Africans Rally Against Witch Persecution and Muti Murders?
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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.