16/05/2019
14/05/2019
After protests Kenyans were finally able to watch this ground-breaking feature film about a lesbian love in their cinemas. But only for one week.
14/05/2019
South African photographer Nontsikelelo Veleko has given one of her images to ZAM as a gesture of appreciation for our work.
14/05/2019
Our President is often travelling to London to see a Nigerian doctor.
14/05/2019
An exhibition by more than 25 young artists, invited and commissioned by Zanele Muholi will open in Durban.
14/05/2019
For poor women, doing sex work to survive is the rule rather than the exception.
07/05/2019
07/05/2019
The Amsterdam-based South African artist Neo Matloga is nominated for the 2019 de Volkskrant Visual Art Award. ‘For me ZAM magazine was the first magazine reflecting people of colour. (…) It connects me to my people.’
18/04/2019
On 29 March 1988 five bullets ended the life of South African liberation movement activist Dulcie September.
09/04/2019
So much international praise and a range of awards for the début of British-Nigerian writer Lesley Nneka Arimah.
09/04/2019
The Ivorian novelist, playwright, poet and former Minister of Culture died on March 9, 2019, in Abidjan.
09/04/2019
Santu Mofokeng: storyteller
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“It took me less than half a minute to feel blown away by Mofokeng’s photo’s”, writes Laurens Nijzink.
26/03/2019
For five years, Ben Krewinkel has been building an ever growing collection of 20th century African photobooks. The 500 to 550 titles in his possession reflect the changing visual representation of the continent. Krewinkel’s collection is visible online; he is also working on a book.
26/03/2019
She is one of the driving forces behind the country’s and continent’s literary renaissance.
18/03/2019
The latest issue of the Johannesburg Review of Books brings you, amongst many others: Bongani Madondo, Rustum Kozai, Lebohang Mojapelo, Troy Onyango, Victor Dlamini, Niq Mhlongo, Eben Venter, Guy Tillim and Efemia Chela.
14/03/2019
“No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.” - Ursula K. Le Guin
04/02/2019
First we were accused of ‘gross distortions’. Now the mining company gives in.
04/02/2019
The Faso Dance Théâtre will perform an excerpt of Kirina at the Nelson Mandela Lecture. Librettist Felwine Sarr explores a mythical West African story that inspired the choreography.
04/02/2019
The Contemporary African Photography Prize is open for entries to its eighth edition.
22/01/2019