Scene after scene of intense beauty and horror are almost minutely described in Maaza Mengiste monumental novel The Shadow King.
19/10/2020
Observing the largest gathering of black people I had ever seen in Amsterdam, I realised that their pain was familiar, yet we knew so little of each other, separated not just by geography and language, but also by a suppression of our stories.
15/10/2020
Book Review | The Old Drift
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From Namwanli Serpell's novel emerges a Zambia that is vibrant, energetic and full of life. But it is certainly not a paradise.
12/10/2020
The documentary Lamentations of Judas, shot in Pomfret, South Africa, was recently nominated for one of the Dutch 'Oscars', the Gouden Kalf. Bram Posthumus recalls the story of Angolan mercenaries fighting on their own in a Cold War era.
08/10/2020
Sinds de uitbraak van Covid 19 werden mensen zich ervan bewust 'dat het individualisme weliswaar had gefunctioneerd voor hen in tijden van stabiliteit, maar dat het hen nergens zou brengen in tijden van stress. Ze hadden elkaar nodig', schrijft Sisonke Msimang in een essay dat verschijnt ter gelegenheid van de expositie A Fair Share of Utopia.
05/10/2020
Since the Covid 19 pandemic people have realised that 'while individualism had worked for them in times of stability, it would get them nowhere in times of stress. They needed one another.', writes Sisonke Msimang in an essay for the exhibition ‘A Fair Share of Utopia’.
05/10/2020
An open letter to Hage Geingob, president of the Republic of Namibia.
01/10/2020
On 10 August 2020, the internationally acclaimed Sudanese filmmaker Hajooj Kuka was arrested together with ten other artists from the Civic Lab in Khartoum, where they were rehearsing a theatre play.
28/09/2020
What does a world without racism looks like? And how do we get there? Inspired by an Afrofuturistic graphic novel, filmmakers Ikenna Azuike, Soraya Pol and Mette te Velde explore a world beyond them and us.
28/09/2020
West African Portraiture from Independence into the 21st Century. Meet Rachid Bissiriou, Sanlé Sory, Leonce Raphal Agbodjélou and others.
28/09/2020
Feeling at home in both worlds without denying oneself. The migrants odyssey is the guiding theme through this year's edition.
28/09/2020
In Tsitsi Dangarembga's new novel, nominated for the 2020 International Booker Prize, shame and rage reign before the main character comes to terms with herself.
28/09/2020
‘If you would die today and reincarnate one generation later, in what world would you want to be born, regardless of where or who you are?’ This is the question posed to the artists of ‘A Fair Share of Utopia’ that inspired them to create new works for Nest (The Hague) and CBK Zuidoost (Amsterdam).
28/09/2020
South African gay coming of age films are becoming a genre.
17/09/2020
And the winners are...
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The five winners of CAP Prize 2020 have been announced.
14/09/2020
This year's edition of the annual Afro_Vibes festival has it all.
07/09/2020
To be black and woman is the theme of a recently launched new anthology. Seventeen perspectives in French and Dutch centred around the female body in an oppressive society.
07/09/2020
Where is the government that claims to support the arts?
07/09/2020
A corona-proof interactive walk will take you through the colonial history of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and South Africa.
07/09/2020
New Currency, Old Power Play
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While the CFA franc comes to an end in 2020, France’s power play in West Africa will not.
07/09/2020