On wednesday 11 February 2015 it's 25 years ago Nelson Mandela was released from prison. After 27 years on Robben Island and in Victor Verster Prison, he continued his long walk to freedom: special edition about Mandela
10/02/2015
Conratulations to the winners of tickets to the Orlando Julius with Heliocentrics concert at BIRD in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
27/01/2015
Nigerian music legend, saxophonist and songwriter Orlando Julius teamed up with UK psychedelic jazz collective the Heliocentrics and on 31 January, they enter the stage of Jazz club BIRD in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Few artists have been more crucial to the invention and development of Afrobeat than Julius; he was one of the first to start fusing African influences with American R&B and soul in the 1960'.
19/01/2015
Breaking down the walls
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18/12/2014
The special ZAM issue on Nelson Mandela was handed out to all students at Open Schoolgemeenschap Bijlmer, the Netherlands, on 10 December. Through the edition the students will learn more about Mandela, his legacy and related matters. Besides Open Schoolgemeenschap Bijlmer, two other schools in Amsterdam Zuidoost also received copies.
11/12/2014
Many people attended the Amsterdam launch of Zanele Muholi's book Faces and Phases on Tuesday 9 December, a last-minute-ZAM Newsroom organised in five days.
11/12/2014
A new ZAM exhibition was launched during an encounter last Friday of South African filmmakers and producers in the basement of the Dutch Cultural Media Fund. This get-together was organized by ZAM together with Dutch Indies, the South African Documentary Filmmakers Association and Afrovibes.
24/11/2014
In a mailing to our Chronicle newsletter readers we announced that we had books of America/Nigerian author Teju Cole's new book ‘Every Day is for the Thief’ to raffle and we would now like to congratulate the winners.
06/11/2014
Our man in Johannesburg II
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ZAM’s investigative reporter Theophilus Abbah reports on his second day at the African Investigative Journalism Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa.
05/11/2014
Burkina Faso
Blog /Together with Sabine Luning (Leiden University) ZAM editor Bart Luirink discussed recent developments in Burkina Faso and their impact on African autocracies on Dutch Radio 1 on Tuesday 4 November 9h00 PM. Listen here!
05/11/2014
Our man in Johannesburg
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Investigative reporter Theophilus Abbah, editor of the Nigerian Sunday Trust, is in Johannesburg at the African Investigative Journalism Conference. This is his blog.
04/11/2014
Sold out
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ZAM Special sold out at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. New package ready for delivery!
03/11/2014
In the aftermath of a seminar about African investigative journalism held in Amsterdam, Tobore Ovuorie and Kassim Mohamed visited ZAM. Both are acclaimed for their daring work and we were in awe listening to Kassim about his undercover work amid armed gangs in Nairobi and his investigation into the smuggling of small arms in the East African region. The world was outraged and saddened by the terrorist attack on the Nairobi Westgate shopping mall last year, but how did the arms enter Kenya? Check Mohamed’s work on this here and here.
31/10/2014
How do you want me to look?
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Production started! The feature 'How do you want me to look?', published in the ZAM Commemmorative Issue about Nelson Mandela, will be turned into a small exhibition. The exhibition will contain of portraits of Mandela by Dutch photographers Kadir van Lohuizen, Daniel Koning and Sander Veenemann. To be launched at Arti, the HQ of South African documentary filmmakers at IDFA.
31/10/2014
On Saturday 1 November 2014 members of the ZAM promotional team will be present at the annual Afrika Dag (Africa Day) of the Evert Vermeer Stichting in Amsterdam.
31/10/2014