Couto’s book Confession of a lioness (A Confissão da Leoa), reads as a poetic puzzle. The storyline comes to us in fragments and unfolds very slowly and indirectly. Set in Kulumani, a small, isolated village in the north of Mozambique, it soon becomes clear that something is very wrong there, but what exactly?
29/10/2017
It is with great pleasure that we present the winners of the 2017 Uganda Press Photo Award and the Young Photographer Award.
26/10/2017
African Architecture Matters
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We congratulate African Architects Matters on their new stunning website.
19/10/2017
Exactly one week ago a hard-hitting investigation into the plunder of state resources by African oligarchs was launched at ZAM headquarters in Amsterdam
17/10/2017
On Friday the 20th of October, the Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra will premiere their latest piece Leo Africanus in Podium Mozaïek in Amsterdam.
10/10/2017
In 2011, ZAM published photographic works of Swaziland artist Nandipha Mntambo. Her work is now exhibited in the recently opened Zeitz MOCAA Museum in Cape Town.
05/10/2017
The Special Issue will be released on 10 October.
05/10/2017
"This story serves as a warning that the oppressed can become oppressors."
02/10/2017
Q&A with Kadara Enyeasi
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No vintage anymore, UNSEEN shows exclusively photographic work that was made over the last three years.
24/09/2017
At its second edition, iAfrica is offering you an exhilarating programme with feature films, animation, documentaries, live music, masterclass, photo exhibition and much more.
20/09/2017
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20/09/2017
Remembering Biko
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40 years ago, on the 12th of September 1977, Steve 'Bantu' Biko was murdered by the Apartheid regime in South Africa.
12/09/2017
African oligarchs
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Blaming only multinationals for the plunder of Africa’s mineral and other natural resources?
10/09/2017
The investigation into development aid by our partners in the African Investigative Publishing Collective, 'How aid helps the rich get richer', is doing the rounds
24/08/2017
Children in the global south are targets for charitable intervention by Western do-gooders.
24/08/2017
ZAM board member Babah Tarawally drums up support for affected community in Sierra Leone.
24/08/2017
Togo | Gnassingbé to-go
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An uprising against a dictator. Angry people in the streets. Seven protestors shot dead by soldiers.
24/08/2017
Will this DVD be yours?
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We are giving away three copies of an extraordinary film.
24/08/2017
On the 17th of August 1982 the South African freedom fighter, journalist and scholar Ruth First was assassinated by parcel bomb sent to her by apartheid dead squads. Thirty-five years later, First is remembered as a courageous and stubborn activist against white supremacy and male domination.
17/08/2017
Pride & Loss in Amsterdam
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With photography from the Inkanyiso Collective, the Amsterdam No Man's Art Gallery honours the courage of South African LGBT activists and mourns the lives of so many fallen heroes.
10/08/2017