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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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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ZAM launches Bureau Afrika
Blog /Platform for Investigative Journalism. Stories for Change.
02/02/2021
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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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Exploitation and imagination in the works of this year’s principal winner of the Prince Claus Award.
02/12/2020
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After his victory in 2016, President Akufo-Addo announced that he would clean government. But when the main corruption fighter came too close, he was sent on leave.
02/12/2020
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We are standing in solidarity with African changemakers. Highlighting their stories and insights. Building a world beyond them and us. Join the movement!
23/11/2020
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In the past, black portraiture has tended towards fanciful depictions that have little semblance to the lived experiences of Black and Brown bodies, from the African continent and beyond.
02/12/2020
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The million dollar deals between President Paul Biya and American PR companies
02/11/2020
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The #Jerusalemadancechallenge will enter history as the global COVID-19 crisis’ unprecedented, contemporary African-inspired symbol of hope. Yet the Angolan origins of this viral trend, and the reason behind Jerusalema’s explosive popularity, are barely touched upon by the international media.
10/11/2020
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Nok terracottas are proof that an ancient civilisation once existed in Nigeria. Now they are at the centre of a multi-million dollar, globe-spanning underground industry. Nigeria loses out.
24/11/2020
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30 philosophers challenging the traditional western canon.
02/12/2020
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Why are Africans not dying?
Blog /If the coronavirus has taught us anything, it is that not even a pandemic can erase the inherent racism in the Western media and in humanitarian organisations.
02/11/2020
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Observing the largest gathering of black people I had ever seen in Amsterdam, I realised that their pain was familiar, yet we knew so little of each other, separated not just by geography and language, but also by a suppression of our stories.
15/10/2020
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Michael Schmidt’s Death Flights uncovers one of the darkest chapters of Apartheid oppression.
18/11/2020
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Since the Covid 19 pandemic people have realised that 'while individualism had worked for them in times of stability, it would get them nowhere in times of stress. They needed one another.', writes Sisonke Msimang in an essay for the exhibition ‘A Fair Share of Utopia’.
05/10/2020
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Inside a Nigerian queer community safe house.
19/10/2020
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Say it loud!
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- Open for Applications: New Temporary Programme Ecologies of Transformation, Sandberg Instituut
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- Nigeria | Farmer-herder conflict claims more casualties than Boko Haram
- 12.03.21 | Conversations with Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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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.