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
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