OBF2025: Fluency and Trauma

Fluency and Trauma

This is a live recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival. In this event, Siphokazi Jonas, Athambile Masola and Ryan Pedro speak to Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal about finding language to hold one’s past.

This event is brought to you by the Centre for Rhetoric Studies.


The festival was made possible by the support of the City of Cape Town, the Heinrich Boell Foundation and the Wheatfield Estate Foundation Trust.

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