In the media
Articles, interviews, op-eds, podcasts, videos and events featuring Carla. Click through to read, listen or watch at the source.
Black Achievement MonthEvent
Carla Kabamba sits on the independent jury of the BAM Awards, which honour Black role models excelling in their fields. The jury selected 19 nominees in six categories; the ceremony takes place at Nieuwe DeLaMar.
Duurzaam aan de Waal / LUX NijmegenEvent
At the Nijmegen Sustainability Café in LUX, Carla Kabamba shared her view on climate justice and how, as an Amsterdam councillor, she put the dilemmas of the energy transition on the agenda.
De Nijmeegse StadskrantArticle
Report of the Sustainability Café: political scientist Carla Kabamba explains how she raised responsibility for the entire raw-materials chain in Amsterdam's council. "We are part of a global story. We have to be honest."
NPO Radio 1 – De Rode Draad (BNNVARA)Interview
On De Rode Draad (NPO Radio 1), Carla Kabamba, political scientist and leader of Partij voor Morgen, joins a conversation about the Ebola outbreak and the violence and political instability in eastern Congo.
AT5Article
As 26 Amsterdam councillors say farewell, Carla Kabamba (Partij voor Morgen) says she is glad she will never have to live with 'what if'. Quoting her daughter ('Kabamba's never give up'), she promises: 'I'll be back'.
Joint-PoliticsPodcast
Third part of a municipal-election series: Fatima Faid (Haagse Stadspartij), Lian Heinhuis (PvdA), Carla Kabamba (Partij voor Morgen) and Walter Freeman (GroenLinks) discuss green neighbourhoods, waste and parking.
Afro MagazineInterview
Profile of Carla Kabamba as lead candidate of Partij voor Morgen (formerly Lijst Kabamba), highlighting four years on the council, three as group leader, three on the presidium and four as chair of the Housing committee.
Pakhuis de ZwijgerVideo
Lead-candidate debate on arts and culture ahead of the 2026 municipal elections, featuring Carla Kabamba (Partij voor Morgen) alongside leaders of GroenLinks, D66, PvdA, SP, VVD and the Party for the Animals. Recording available on the programme page.
AT5Interview
Ahead of the municipal elections, Carla argues for an Amsterdam where everyone can afford to stay: a €1,300 cap on mid-market rents and more investment in vocational education.
NH NieuwsArticle
Councillors react to a poll ahead of the municipal elections. Carla Kabamba questions whether pollsters reached Zuidoost, Nieuw-West, Noord and Oost, where her 2022 voters live, and remains hopeful.
Het ParoolArticle
Overview of new and small parties competing for seats on Amsterdam's city council in March 2026. Carla Kabamba talks about Partij voor Morgen, which focuses on families, women and children.
Het ParoolArticle
The council wants tough action against a landlord who rented only to women and demanded access to their social media. Carla Kabamba (Partij voor Morgen) asks whether a reporting point for such housing discrimination is needed.
Het ParoolOp-ed
Op-ed by councillors from several parties, including Carla Kabamba. With Amsterdam's queer bars and clubs closing, they call for these venues to be given a central role at WorldPride.
Het ParoolArticle
Report on the council debate about the clash between Mayor Halsema and ombudsman Ramlal over the city's Integrity Bureau. Carla Kabamba (Partij voor Morgen) backs the ombudsman's findings and presses the mayor with pointed questions about checks and balances and the safety of whistleblowers.
Het ParoolArticle
Debate on scrapping metro line 53. Carla Kabamba (Partij voor Morgen) points out that the Zuidoost district committee unanimously opposed it and that political engagement from Zuidoost structurally yields little.
Het ParoolArticle
Carla Kabamba (Partij voor Morgen) steps down from the city council's presidium over the tensions surrounding the ombudsman's investigation into the Integrity Bureau. She wants to speak freely about the report and stresses that the move is not an election stunt.
NH NieuwsArticle
Carla steps down from the presidium of the Amsterdam city council so she can speak freely, as a councillor, about the critical ombudsman report on the Integrity Bureau.
De KanttekeningArticle
About the Dutch Squad, a network promoting Black and bicultural representation in Dutch politics. Carla Kabamba (Partij voor Morgen) is named as one of the politicians at the core of the movement.
WereldmuseumEvent
An Imagine Peace event on the links between climate justice, war and decolonisation, and the consequences of the exploitation of the earth through colonialism and capitalism. Carla Kabamba is listed as a speaker.
Pakhuis de ZwijgerVideo
Evening on the dark side of the green transition: Congolese raw materials and the violence around them. Carla Kabamba speaks as political scientist, performance artist and group leader, alongside spoken-word artists; recording available.
AT5 – Park PolitiekVideo
Episode of AT5's political programme Park Politiek featuring Carla Kabamba as guest, broadcast the week she presented her Lijst Kabamba for the national elections.
AT5Interview
Carla explains why she wants to move into national politics, and why she sees Amsterdam as a model for education, care and affordable housing.
AT5Article
Carla Kabamba plans to run in the national elections with Lijst Kabamba, describing it as social, radically equal, feminist, anti-colonial, tech-positive, democratic and activist. (Same report ran on NH Nieuws.)
NH NieuwsArticle
Debate on unlawful spending in the Zuidoost Masterplan. Carla Kabamba (Lijst Kabamba) defends the district, saying it 'works incredibly hard to no longer need a masterplan' and warning the coverage is being used against residents.
Het ParoolArticle
Council debate on millions spent improperly in the Zuidoost Masterplan. Carla Kabamba (Lijst Kabamba) wants the city to take a hard look at itself and asks who bore final responsibility.
Afro MagazineArticle
Afro Magazine was the first to speak with Carla about her new movement and her ambition to put social justice on the national agenda.
Het ParoolArticle
Costs of the city's Afis payment system keep rising. Carla Kabamba (Lijst Kabamba) points to rising rents and transit fares: 'In times of scarcity this is unacceptable. We demand redistribution to poverty relief and care.'
Verenigde Naties (UN Web TV)Video
In New York, Carla addressed the 4th session of the Permanent Forum as a civil society speaker (from 1:17:10): on Congo, climate justice and Black women. “We cannot build a clean energy future on dirty wars.”
OneWorldInterview
Three people with a Congolese background, including Carla, on the West’s role in the violence in eastern Congo. Carla talks about her grandmother in Kinshasa and why “everything smart” contributes to Congolese suffering.
Pakhuis de ZwijgerEvent
Political café on the crisis in eastern Congo: historical background, social consequences and the role of national and international politics. Carla Kabamba speaks alongside MPs Mpanzu Bamenga (D66) and Suzanne Kröger, among others.
Pakhuis de ZwijgerEvent
On International Women's Day, Carla Kabamba joined women from the Palestinian, Sudanese and Congolese diasporas to discuss art, leadership and activism as paths to a fairer future.
NPO Radio 1Interview
On De Nieuws BV, Carla Kabamba urges the international community to stand up against the violence in eastern Congo and sanction Rwanda. She is one of the initiators of a protest at the Rwandan embassy in The Hague.
Joint-PoliticsPodcast
Carla Kabamba (councillor, spoken-word artist, radio host and political scientist) talks with hip-hop artist Kiddo Cee about growing up in the Netherlands without acceptance of your identity.
Het ParoolArticle
The council wants rent reductions for tenants facing mould through no fault of their own. A Lijst Kabamba motion wins a majority: Carla Kabamba asks the city and public health service to study mould's mental-health impact.
Het ParoolArticle
The council adopts a motion, filed by Denk, De Vonk, Lijst Kabamba and the Party for the Animals, citing an International Court of Justice ruling on Gaza and urging the cabinet to support aid organisations.
Het ParoolOp-ed
Opinion piece by Carla Kabamba, leader of Lijst Kabamba. She responds to the Party for the Animals' proposal to turn Artis zoo into a city park, which compared Artis to a 1958 'human zoo' that exhibited Congolese people: 'Using this history is blunt and crude.'
OneWorldOp-ed
Opinion piece following the Artis debate, in which Carla spoke out against comparing animals in Artis to colonial human zoos. On how the struggle for animals and the fight against racism relate to each other.
AT5Video
AT5 report on the council committee debate about Artis zoo, in which a visibly moved Carla Kabamba responds to the comparison with human zoos, calling it ignorant at best and dehumanising at worst.
NL TimesArticle
During a council debate on Artis zoo, Carla speaks out against comparing animals to colonial human zoos: "at best ignorant, at worst dehumanising."
Het ParoolArticle
The Party for the Animals' proposal to turn Artis zoo into a public park finds no support in the council. Carla Kabamba (Lijst Kabamba), who is of Congolese descent, reacts furiously to the proposal's comparison with Congolese people exhibited in a human zoo in 1958.
NPO Radio 1 – Dit is de DagInterview
On Dit is de Dag, Carla Kabamba, a co-signatory of a letter from 150 people and 35 organisations, explains why she believes Speaker Martin Bosma should stay away from the 1 July slavery commemoration, in conversation with VVD councillor Daan Wijnants.
Het ParoolOp-ed
Open letter from hundreds of people and dozens of organisations from the Surinamese and Caribbean communities, co-signed by Carla: Speaker Bosma laying a wreath on 1 July does violence to the meaning of the commemoration. “Send a replacement.”
Framer Framed PodcastPodcast
Recorded conversation between Jean-Sylvain Tshilumba Mukendi and Carla Kabamba on the intertwined histories of the world, Amsterdam and the DR Congo. Kabamba shares her personal connection to Congo and colonial exploitation.
Universiteit van AmsterdamEvent
Announcement of the Diaspora Talks at Africadelic 2024 in Tolhuistuin. Carla Kabamba (Lijst Kabamba, board member of the Bolingo Foundation) speaks with Friends of the Congo and Free Congo Now about Congo's past, present and future.
Joint-PoliticsPodcast
Discussion of the situation in Gaza, antisemitism and the role of the West, with Carla Kabamba among the guests as councillor and political scientist.
Pakhuis de ZwijgerVideo
Day of Empathy programme on the eve of Remembrance and Liberation Day about a more inclusive commemoration. Carla Kabamba is one of the speakers; recording available.
Pakhuis de ZwijgerEvent
Programme on the escalating crisis in Kivu, eastern Congo, and how the Congolese community can work with the international community. Carla Kabamba speaks alongside Desire Maingole and Nancy Rijssel.
FunXInterview
FunX previews the FreeCongo panel talk in Amsterdam on the situation in eastern Congo, with Carla as one of the speakers.
DutchNews.nlArticle
Amsterdam unveils plans for a new national slavery museum on the waterfront. Carla Kabamba tells DutchNews it is a 'beautiful moment' and is confident the museum will go ahead despite a possible right-wing government.
YouTubeVideo
Carla Kabamba's speech at the Free Congo Now demonstration in Amsterdam (20 January 2024), denouncing how a war killing millions barely registers in the news.
Pakhuis de ZwijgerEvent
Evening on contributing to peace, stability and justice in the DR Congo, ahead of a protest on Dam Square. Carla Kabamba is among the speakers, alongside K.M. Ally and Desire Maingole.
Het ParoolArticle
Thanks to a motion by GroenLinks, PvdA and Lijst Kabamba, around 1,500 Amsterdam residents with (looming) debts will be exempt from the personal contribution for home care from 1 January.
Late Night TalksPodcast
Host Awura Abena talks with Carla Kabamba and Desire Maingole about the crisis in Congo: how the Netherlands can help, why Western media ignore Congo and why political leaders abandon 25 million people.
De Groene AmsterdammerArticle
Feature on how parties use politicians with a migration background instrumentally on candidate lists. Carla Kabamba calls it a catch-22 for bicultural candidates and analyses how heritage is framed for Yeşilgöz and Sunak.
Wereldmuseum AmsterdamEvent
Black Achievement Month programme in the Wereldmuseum's Lichthal, including a performance by Carla Kabamba (a.k.a. Nzingah Morena), who as politician and artist uses spoken word and song to connect past, present and future.
Pakhuis de ZwijgerEvent
A gathering on a general pardon for rejected asylum seekers and long-term migrants in the Netherlands, ahead of a nationwide demonstration. Carla Kabamba was on the programme.
TrouwArticle
On Sylvana Simons as an inspiration for young politicians of colour. Carla Kabamba says Simons was her first role model on TV, calls her success 'great and inspiring' and says she got to know her hero.
Pakhuis de ZwijgerEvent
World Refugee Day programme on the rights of undocumented people and asylum seekers. Carla Kabamba is one of the speakers, alongside activists and people with lived experience.
Het ParoolArticle
From now on, the Surinamese flag and those of the former Netherlands Antilles will also fly on Keti Koti. Lijst Kabamba's Jürgen Olivieira had earlier asked the council for this.
Kleur de Kamer / Omroep XVideo
Episode of Kleur de Kamer, presented by Ivette Forster and Guilly Koster, featuring Carla Kabamba among other candidates for the 16 March 2022 municipal elections.
De KanttekeningOp-ed
Year-in-review with twelve contributors. Carla Kabamba calls 2022 'a year of crisis, transformation and liberation' and commits to equal opportunity, livelihood security and a humane world: 'Hard on the problems, soft on people.'
YouTubeVideo
Carla Kabamba's speech at the Amsterdam demonstration 'The crime is my skin color', protesting the neglect and mistreatment of Africans fleeing Ukraine.
Het ParoolInterview
Carla Kabamba, number two of Bij1's Amsterdam branch, leaves the party after escalating conflicts and continues as a one-person group on the city council. She speaks about internal racism and a toxic atmosphere, and is critical of party leader Sylvana Simons.
Joint-PoliticsPodcast
Conversation with councillors Imane Nadif (GroenLinks), Carla Kabamba (then Bij1) and Lian Heinhuis (PvdA) on energy poverty and environmentally friendly energy policy.
Het ParoolArticle
Carla Kabamba becomes the new leader of Bij1's group on Amsterdam's city council, the local board tells members. Kabamba: 'Nilab didn't want to do it, so I'm the only one left. I'm happy about it.'
AT5Article
Carla becomes faction leader in the Amsterdam city council.
SJ ShowVideo
Video interview with Carla Kabamba, Afro-Dutch political scientist of Angolan and Congolese descent elected to Amsterdam's council in 2022, on politics, Afropea and Bantu history.
Het ParoolArticle
Councillors from D66, GroenLinks, Bij1 (Carla Kabamba) and Denk want Amsterdam to follow Utrecht and temporarily prioritise refugees with residence permits for social housing to help ease the reception crisis.
De BalieEvent
A De Balie Live Journalism and AT5 theatre piece about informal carers, followed by a discussion with Amsterdam councillors including Carla Kabamba (BIJ1).
Het ParoolArticle
The attempt to reconcile Bij1 Amsterdam appears to be working, with members calling the meeting positive. Carla Kabamba: 'It was very unifying. We're now at a point where we can move forward.'
YouTubeVideo
Video conversation on change in Amsterdam, representation and her work for the community.
Africa on FocusPodcast
Podcast on her mission to give Amsterdam’s African diaspora a voice and to bring more Black representation into politics.
Africa on FocusVideo
On Africa on Focus, Dutch-Congolese councillor Carla Kabamba shares her experience of the Dutch childcare benefits scandal and how she believes the ongoing cases should be handled.
Radio Mart / SALTOInterview
Radio interview with Carla and Sandra Doevendans (PvdA) on John Leerdam’s programme, just after their installation as councillors. Two excerpts here; the full broadcast is on Radio Mart (the interview starts at 3:10:36).
On trust in politics and the votes from Zuidoost (4:22)
On 5,008 preference votes and campaigning on social media (4:31)
Het ParoolArticle
Profiles of new councillors. Het Parool writes that Carla Kabamba debated for Bij1 'with verve', drew compliments from opponents for her calm but clear tone, and calls her 'a great political talent'.
Het ParoolArticle
Five notable facts from the 2022 election results. Carla Kabamba (Bij1's number two) won 5,008 preference votes, more than lead candidate Jazie Veldhuyzen.
Pakhuis de Zwijger – Week Tegen Racisme 2022Event
Strategy session during Week Against Racism on how the City of Amsterdam can become a representative reflection of its population; Carla Kabamba is among the speakers.
YouTubeVideo
A video interview in which Carla talks about her background and motivations.
CulturuArticle
A profile just before the 2022 elections: raised in The Hague, a mother, and determined to give young people in Zuidoost more opportunities through financial education and support for parents.
AT5 – Politieke SpelletjesVideo
In the AT5 show Politieke Spelletjes, Marcel Bamberg and Luuk Dresen test Amsterdam politicians on their knowledge ahead of the 2022 municipal elections, including Carla Kabamba (BIJ1).
Pakhuis de ZwijgerVideo
Election debate on racism in Amsterdam with leaders from Volt, Denk, PvdA, D66, GroenLinks and others; Carla Kabamba is one of the political speakers. Recording available.
Studievereniging SarphatiVideo
Election debate organised by study association Sarphati with a planning and social-geography angle, featuring Volt, VVD, GroenLinks and BIJ1. Carla Kabamba spoke for BIJ1.
Mediacollege AmsterdamVideo
At an election debate for vocational students at Mediacollege Amsterdam, Carla Kabamba (BIJ1, no. 2) debated student-submitted propositions with six other candidates.
SALTOEvent
An election debate in the K-buurt in Amsterdam Zuidoost where residents pressed politicians for clear commitments; Carla Kabamba (BIJ1) took part. SALTO broadcast it on 12 and 13 March 2022 via 020Kiest.
De Balie / SALTOVideo
Debate by De Balie, the University of Amsterdam and VU Amsterdam ahead of the 2022 municipal elections, before an audience of students. Carla debated for BIJ1, standing in for lead candidate Jazie Veldhuyzen, with the lead candidates of eight other parties on student wellbeing, student housing and internships. In the clip she argues for a school psychologist close to young people and explains why mental health starts with affordable housing (in Dutch).
Kleur de KamerInterview
Carla on debating, spoken word, her runner-up finish at the BBC Young Public Speaking Award and why people of colour stand stronger together.
Internationaal Theater AmsterdamPodcast
A conversation on art and politics: is there still room in the arts and in politics to be uncompromisingly yourself? With Carla Kabamba (then number 2 for BIJ1 Amsterdam and co-founder of New Urban Collective), Selm Wenselaers and host Carolien Borgers.
Pakhuis de Zwijger / AT5Video
AT5's lead-candidate debate for the 2022 municipal elections, with Carla Kabamba among the speakers. Recording available on the programme page.
Pakhuis de ZwijgerVideo
Debate with the 'challengers' in the 2022 municipal elections, featuring SP, Party for the Animals, ChristenUnie, CDA, Denk and Carla Kabamba. Recording available.
MART Radio – Kleur de KamerInterview
Recording of Kleur de Kamer's first show on MART Radio, in which Carla Kabamba and Milka Yemane (GroenLinks) introduce themselves as candidates of colour and explain what they stand for.
Afro MagazineArticle
Kleur de Kamer, a non-partisan initiative supporting candidates of colour, launches a radio show on MART Radio. The first episode features Milka Yemane (GroenLinks) and Carla Kabamba (Bij1), candidates for Amsterdam's council.
Pakhuis de ZwijgerEvent
A debate on the plan for an erotic centre in Amsterdam Zuidoost, in which Carla Kabamba joined residents and council candidates on a safer Zuidoost.
Radio Grani / CaribbeanFMInterview
Clip from Carla Kabamba's radio debut as a city council candidate on Radio Grani, thanks to Glenda Vijzelman.
DipsausArticle
Report on The Black Vote debate (New Urban Collective), where Carla Kabamba (U-buntu Connected Front) and Sylvana Simons emerge as the strongest speakers; the author highlights her contribution on decolonising street names.
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