The Mnangagwa regime responds to protests with violence and the arrests of activists and journalists. A call for solidarity with those fighting for social justice has gained the support of many.

10/08/2020

Amid the furore about #cancelculture it may be appropriate to commemorate the outrage that targeted Achille Mbembe, Cameroonian historian and social scientist, and a profound thinker and visionary, earlier this year. 

20/07/2020

The 'Terrible Ones', those young Angolans who collaborated with Apartheid South Africa during its border wars, re-enact the Biblical story of Judas.

20/07/2020

A German conservative politician has accused the Cameroonian historian and social scientist of antisemitism and demanded that an invitation for him to speak at a cultural festival in Germany be withdrawn.

20/07/2020

A fashion book by transgender sex workers from Cape Town. Life on the edge of the Castle of Good Hope.

13/07/2020

Shortly before the inaugural ZAM Nelson Mandela Lecture started, an iconic picture of the South African freedom fighter and statesman found its way to the stage of the Amsterdam City Theatre. It was shot by George Hallett, who died in Cape Town on July 1^st 2020.

13/07/2020

Zindzi Mandela, the 59-year-old daughter of Nelson and Winnie Mandela, has died.

13/07/2020

‘Sandwich’ helps tech giants avoid tax in Africa via the Netherlands and Ireland

13/07/2020

Hungry children and white saviours are still very much present in campaigns by Dutch aid organizations. But also, many of the new aid campaign genres are problematic, observe media scholars Emiel Martens and Wouter Oomen. Every year they present the Fly in the Eye Award for the worst campaign on behalf of IDleaks, a Dutch non-profit organization committed to better humanitarian communication. What is going wrong, and how can it be done better?

06/07/2020

The work of Nigerian artist Abdulrazaq Awofeso is the main attraction of the exhibition City Life in the Dutch city of Arnhem. Two thousand small faces to tell you that one shouldn’t generalise.

25/06/2020

Since December of last year, the Moroccan artist Adam Belarouchia has been a resident at the Thami Mnyele artist studio in Amsterdam – much longer than expected, since all the flights home were cancelled. This is a portrait of a young artist, who gets his inspiration from the streets of Rabat.

25/06/2020

Celebrating the five year anniversary of Juul van der Laan’s documentary Multiverse Ghana with a free viewing

23/06/2020

Dancer, choreographer and LGBTIQ+ activist Kiravn Fortuin was stabbed to death by a 14 year old girl. Are we calling for sheer vengeance and retribution, Marlene le Roux asks.

22/06/2020

Covid-19 is the perfect lightning rod for kleptocrats and crime syndicates alike. Sometimes the struggle against the virus itself fills their pockets.

22/06/2020

Dutch documentary filmmaker and journalist Serginho Roosblad follows Jonathan Calm's search into America's past and present.

15/06/2020

We mourn the death of Kirvan Fortuin, a South African dancer, choreographer and LGBTIQ activist.

15/06/2020

Amsterdam based South African writer Richard de Nooy envies his daughter's insistence to march.

15/06/2020

This month 35 years ago, a rain of bullets by a South African death squad ended the life and career of artist and activist Thami Mnyele. The Thami Mnyele Foundation, that welcomed 127 African artists in its studio in Amsterdam, kept his ideas alive.

15/06/2020

Homeless and threatened, in a country where police nor justice system will help or protect, Luzia Banzuzi saw only one way out.

11/06/2020

In June last year the town of Portland in Maine, north west USA, was suddenly in the news because thirty-nine migrants from Angola and the DRC had showed up at migrant reception centres

11/06/2020