Bad Boys Don't Sleep
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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
Represent
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Dutch documentary filmmaker and journalist Serginho Roosblad follows Jonathan Calm's search into America's past and present.
15/06/2020
Kirvan Fortuin (1992-2020)
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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
Luzia and the men
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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
Portland's welcome
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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
After braving seas, bandits and jungle, African migrants are now stuck at Mexico's border.
11/06/2020
"Budgets designated for development ended up serving the migration agenda", Kiza Magenda and Yannicke Goris write.
02/06/2020
A review of Guy Woueté's exhibition at De Brakke Grond.
02/06/2020
Questioning the video of George Floyd's murder.
02/06/2020
George Floyd is not dead
Blog /02/06/2020
"Hammam Diaries by Mehdy Mariouch is a trip back in time."
27/05/2020
"Each of us remembers those photographers who were almost smiling, where our parents took us to immortalize a celebration, an event, or simply to give us a portrait for an administrative procedure."
26/05/2020
In this piece on The Elephant, John-Allan Namu revisits a gruesome chapter in East-African history, the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
25/05/2020
The significance of Binyavanga Wainaina, the Kenyan writer who died a year ago on May 21, 2019, cannot be underestimated.
25/05/2020
"Tala ngai is an expression from Lingala, one of the four national languages of the Democratic Republic of Congo which means "Look at me or visit me."
25/05/2020
"On their way from South Sudan to Uganda, refugees walked for days or weeks carrying embroidered sheets, decorated with swirls of flowers, trees, and animals."
22/05/2020
"This is the story of two friends who shared the same dream: reaching Europe, where they hope to live a better life and sustain their family."
19/05/2020
"This project is a reflection on personal identity for Moroccan youth based on a selection of portraits of young people who take their destinies into their own hands."
18/05/2020