This month, two and a half years after Gerald Kraak's death, his novel Shadow Play will be launched in South Africa. A story of subterfuge, betrayal, risk and deep bonds of friendship formed during a time of struggle and pain in Amsterdam and London, where Kraak lived as a political exile, and by way of flashbacks in South Africa. The novel has been posthumously completed and edited by Alison Lowry. ZAM published extracts from the manuscript in October 2015 . Read more about the book on the website...
This month, two and a half years after Gerald Kraak's death, his novel Shadow Play will be launched in South Africa. A story of subterfuge, betrayal,...
Rebelleren met de Grondwet in de hand De tegenkrachten tegen het rijk van Jacob Zuma in Zuid-Afrika worden, getuige de demonstraties van april dit jaar en de steeds nauwere samenwerking door organisaties van de oppositie, steeds luider en talrijker. Zij worden daarbij bovendien in de rug gesteund door een wel zeer machtig wapen: de Grondwet die gelijkheid en rechtvaardigheid voor allen garandeert. In de oorlog die, a la Star Wars, nu gaande is tussen foute machthebbers en een brede alliantie van...
Rebelleren met de Grondwet in de hand De tegenkrachten tegen het rijk van Jacob Zuma in Zuid-Afrika worden, getuige de demonstraties van april dit jaar...
In a quest to reposition the African continent’s brand through new visual imagery and discourse, and helped by his journalism and advertising past, Ghanaian photographer Nana Kofi Acquah will take charge of the ZAM Instagram account for a week. Kofi Acquah has worked across Africa, is a member of the Instagram feed @EverydayAfrica, an assignment photographer for Getty Images, and the first recipient of the Tim Hetherington and World Press Photo Fellowship. We have never been so excited to be pushed...
In a quest to reposition the African continent’s brand through new visual imagery and discourse, and helped by his journalism and advertising past,...
In de loopgraven van de corruptie Soms komen de dingen langs een omweg tot ons. En soms duurt het nog langer voordat we die dingen beseffen. Als B. me -we schrijven begin 2015- vanuit Nederland belt met de vraag of ik me die-en-die nog herinner uit de antiapartheidsbeweging, een Amsterdamse mede-activist, begin ik goedgeluimd met het ophalen van anekdotes, maar mijn gesprekspartner is daar niet voor in de stemming. “Hij zegt dat iemand vermoord is. Een goede vriend van hem uit Port Elizabeth.” Het...
In de loopgraven van de corruptie Soms komen de dingen langs een omweg tot ons. En soms duurt het nog langer voordat we die dingen beseffen. Als B. me...
Pascale Lamche's new documentary on Winnie Mandela will be in Dutch cinemas from June 22nd. In 2004, Pascale Lamche directed Accused #1: Nelson Mandela , a documentary about the Rivonia Trial that featured exclusive interviews with Nelson Mandela and all surviving co-accused. Now, Lamche revisits the Mandelas in her latest documentary “Winnie,” which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Lamche sees Winnie Mandela as a highly misunderstood female political figure who, while her husband...
Pascale Lamche's new documentary on Winnie Mandela will be in Dutch cinemas from June 22nd. In 2004, Pascale Lamche directed Accused #1: Nelson Mandela...
An exhibition revisiting the relationship between The Netherlands and South Africa in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum elicited much controversy. ZAM editor-in-chief Bart Luirink reviews Goede Hoop on his blog .
An exhibition revisiting the relationship between The Netherlands and South Africa in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum elicited much controversy. ZAM...
Congratulations to all winners of the CAP Prize 2017 : Emmanuelle Andrianjafy (Madagascar, based in Senegal), Girma Berta (Ethiopia), Lebohang Kganye (South Africa), Fethi Sahraoui (Algeria) and Georges Senga (DR Congo). Want to see their work? Follow instagram.com/zammagazine/ .
Congratulations to all winners of the CAP Prize 2017 : Emmanuelle Andrianjafy (Madagascar, based in Senegal), Girma Berta (Ethiopia), Lebohang Kganye...
A transnational investigation by the African Investigative Publishing Collective "We are in a national security crisis." The road to Empaemu in Kwahu East district in Ghana has narrowed so that only motorbikes can pass. Ruins of homes made of mud and bricks have been washed away with no sign of their owners. A basic school which used to boast of over 200 pupils houses only rodents now. Nana Kwaku Ansong (58), traditional ruler of Empaemu and his subjects have become refugees in their own lands....
A transnational investigation by the African Investigative Publishing Collective "We are in a national security crisis." The road to Empaemu in Kwahu...
A transnational investigation by the African Investigative Publishing Collective “I wake up every day ready to fight to survive” The Shebelle river flows into Somalia from Ethiopia, through the regional capital Beledweyne further into the Hiran region, down to Buluboorde and beyond. Many farmers tend crops of maize, wheat, millet and peas on the land alongside it. But the cattle in the area need food too, and often herders allow them to feed on the green saplings, which the farmers can’t allow. As...
A transnational investigation by the African Investigative Publishing Collective “I wake up every day ready to fight to survive” The Shebelle river flows...
A transnational investigation by the African Investigative Publishing Collective “Lack of clear authority” left the time bomb ticking since the 1950s BENUE STATE, NIGERIA, February 2017 70-year-old Chief Godwin Onah, the paramount ruler of Agatu in Benue State, talks of the destruction of both his palace and his community. “I’ve been homeless for three years now. I live with friends.” Nostalgically recalling the olden days when “my father and nomadic Fulani herdsmen exchanged mangoes in the farms,”...
A transnational investigation by the African Investigative Publishing Collective “Lack of clear authority” left the time bomb ticking since the 1950s...
A transnational investigation by the African Investigative Publishing Collective The mini-arms races of the Karamoja Sitting on his three-legged stool at a watering point in Naput village in Moroto district, not too far from the Uganda-Kenya border, Moruita Lukotomoi says he once killed three men. “They had come to steal our cows, but we fought them and kept our cattle safe.” That was in the early 1990s. But nowadays, after a period in which the Ugandan army disarmed the Karamojong cattle herding...
A transnational investigation by the African Investigative Publishing Collective The mini-arms races of the Karamoja Sitting on his three-legged stool at...
The AIPC Transnational Investigation Team “Helping the rich get richer” 2017 CAMEROON Chief Bisong Etahoben is a Cameroonian investigative journalist and former editor-in-chief of the Weekly Post newspaper. He also writes for international media and has participated in several transnational investigations, of which “Killing Soccer in Africa,” www.theguardian.com/football/2010/oct/24/football-corruption-cameroon-nigeria-ivory-coast , “The Demonic Universe”...
The AIPC Transnational Investigation Team “Helping the rich get richer” 2017 CAMEROON Chief Bisong Etahoben is a Cameroonian investigative journalist and...
NIGERIA Theophilus Abbah is the managing editor of the Nigerian Daily Trust and an award-winning investigative journalist of over twenty years experience. He has won FAIR’s pan-African Editor's Courage Award and was a finalist in the international Daniel Pearl as well as the Nigerian Wole Soyinka investigative journalism awards. He was a Bloomberg/Africa Leadership Initiative (ALI) Media Fellow and participated in the “Pirates, plunderers and corrupt tycoons” transnational investigation...
NIGERIA Theophilus Abbah is the managing editor of the Nigerian Daily Trust and an award-winning investigative journalist of over twenty years...
A team of five reporters criss-crossed through West and East Africa on the trail of the herdsmen. Theophilus Abbah visited razed farms, a displaced persons camp, was present at a hopeful peace meeting at a traditional leader’s palace in Zamfara in Nigeria’s north, and visited destroyed communities and homeless Chiefs in Benue state in the south. Muno Gedi travelled all over the drought-stricken Hiran region in Somalia from Buuloburde to Mahasi district to find that herdsmen and farmer clashes are...
A team of five reporters criss-crossed through West and East Africa on the trail of the herdsmen. Theophilus Abbah visited razed farms, a displaced...
The African Investigative Publishing Collective ( www.investigativecollective.com ) is ZAM’s partner in African investigative journalism. The Collective of eighteen senior investigative journalists from twelve African countries got together in 2015 with a mission to have their stories published internationally, because, in the words of AIPC founder member Idris Akinbajo, “our leaders listen more when our stories are published in the West.” AIPC members’ investigations that have thus far generated...
The African Investigative Publishing Collective ( www.investigativecollective.com ) is ZAM’s partner in African investigative journalism. The Collective...
A selection of articles that were published in partnerschip with the ZAM/AIPC network LATEST partnerships: Co-publications on 'Greener Pastures': South Africa's City Press: www.pressreader.com/south-africa/citypress/20170625/281947427856155 Ghana's New Crusading Guide: http://bit.ly/2u4fhGK Uganda's Observer: www.documentcloud.org/documents/3891446-Page-32.html Co-Publications and collaborations on 'How Aid Helps the Rich get Richer': South Africa's City Press:...
A selection of articles that were published in partnerschip with the ZAM/AIPC network LATEST partnerships: Co-publications on 'Greener Pastures': South...
The AIPC got quite a bit of publicity from the release of its first investigation of 2017. Was the 2016 series already successful, with worldwide mentions and two chapters in a soon-to-be-released US-made reference book about African investigative journalism, the 2017 series is being co-published by respected media houses in Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, South Africa, Ghana, Uganda and Kenya. A range of investigative journalism and development aid experts have commented on and retweeted the...
The AIPC got quite a bit of publicity from the release of its first investigation of 2017. Was the 2016 series already successful, with worldwide...
A selection of articles that were published in partnerschip with the ZAM/AIPC network LATEST partnerships: Co-publications on 'Greener Pastures': South Africa's City Press: www.pressreader.com/south-africa/citypress/20170625/281947427856155 Ghana's New Crusading Guide: http://bit.ly/2u4fhGK Uganda's Observer: www.documentcloud.org/documents/3891446-Page-32.html Co-Publications and collaborations on 'How Aid Helps the Rich get Richer': South Africa's City Press:...
A selection of articles that were published in partnerschip with the ZAM/AIPC network LATEST partnerships: Co-publications on 'Greener Pastures': South...
Last Friday's opening of Zanele Muholi's exhibition at the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum saw hundreds of art lovers and friends of the South African 'visual activist' attending the ceremony. Next to observing Muholi’s amazing works, the crowd also witnessed impressive performances by members of Muholi's ‘Analyzer’ crew and Phila Mbanjwa. Shrouded in a South African flag, Muholi thanked the museum for making her 'coming out again.’ In her opening speech she underlined the motives behind her work, which...
Last Friday's opening of Zanele Muholi's exhibition at the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum saw hundreds of art lovers and friends of the South African 'visual...
Siba Nkumbi and her South African friends, members of Zanele Muholi's crew, don’t doubt it: the airbnb owner who pushed Nkumbi down the stairs in Amsterdam on Saturday July 8th is a racist. Immediately, social media are full of denial. The women “judge too quickly.” They were in the wrong because they checked out late. It could just as well have been a white woman. The latter however is very unlikely. Because this is exactly what it is about racism: that apparently impulsive action -in this case...
Siba Nkumbi and her South African friends, members of Zanele Muholi's crew, don’t doubt it: the airbnb owner who pushed Nkumbi down the stairs in...
This year's Afrovibes trade mark logo is designed by illustrator, photographer and art director Modise 'Blackdice' Sepeng from Alexandra, Johannesburg. As he writes in his bio his works 'simplistically adapts liberation heroes like Steve Biko and Madiba to current con texts of cool.' Modise says his works “look like a post-colonial coat style, and a mash up of Pan-Africanism and punk rock fused with pop art and hip-hop. (It) reflects on the transitional process of South Africans and the need to...
This year's Afrovibes trade mark logo is designed by illustrator, photographer and art director Modise 'Blackdice' Sepeng from Alexandra, Johannesburg....
