On Saturday the 29th of July 2017 the Nigerian police arrested 42 LGBT persons at a party in Owode Onirin in Lagos State. On a picture in one of the local newspapers that covered the story Ayϙ Adéné recognized a friend he had met ten years ago.
10/08/2017
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.'
10/08/2017
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.
11/07/2017
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.
10/07/2017
The AIPC in the news
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The AIPC got quite a bit of publicity from the release of its first investigation of 2017.
27/06/2017
Pascale Lamche's new documentary on Winnie Mandela will be in Dutch cinemas from June 22nd.
11/06/2017
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).
11/06/2017
An exhibition revisiting the relationship between The Netherlands and South Africa in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum elicited much controversy.
11/06/2017
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.
16/05/2017
This month, two and a half years after Gerald Kraak's death, his novel Shadow Play will be launched in South Africa.
15/05/2017
As in the old days of Apartheid, Nelson Mandela is still portrayed as an evil force in some Flemish circles, the writer Tom Lanoye argued is the Hugo Claus Lecture he delivered mid-March in Anvers.
24/04/2017
The new movie about South African lawyer and leader of the Communist Party, Bram Fischer, could not have come at a better time.
09/04/2017
On 16 March 2017, South African documentary photographer, Yasser Booley embarked on a public transport journey, from Cape Town, South Africa to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
23/03/2017
"The unveiling of Mandela Landscape hails the beginning of an exciting partnership between the Artscape Theatre Centre and ZAM Magazine towards creative excellence."
13/03/2017
ZAM latest Photo Editions covers the work of Capetonian photographer Yasser Booley. This is a result of the collaboration between ZAM, the photographer, his curator Joan Legalamitlwa and Africalia. The visuals are chosen from Booley's recently published collection, South Africa at Liberty, an Africalia edition.
06/02/2017
Anton Corbijn: "I am extremely excited that the work has found a home in Cape Town."
31/01/2017
ZAM’s partner the African Investigative Publishing Collective asks for international solidarity to protest the internet blackout that is suffocating the southern Cameroon regions since 22 January.
26/01/2017
ZAM story in De Groene
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A Dutch version of the story ‘Child abuse in the name of voluntourism, initiated by members of the ZAM network, was published by respected weekly De Groene Amsterdammer this week.
24/01/2017
It’s a lesson the fake news brigades around the world should take to heart: in Nigeria, an attempt by the army to stop the country’s brave and ethical news platform the Premium Times from reporting truthfully and accurately has failed spectacularly.
24/01/2017
'Dear Sylvana'| Members of the ZAM Team take part in a campaign to support of Sylvana Simons who is targeted by racist and sexist hate speech and threats.
24/11/2016