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Family and Forgiveness

OBF2024: Family and Forgiveness

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this discussion, Michèle Betty and Damilare Kuku speak to Sue Nyamnjoh about paths to acceptance.

This event was made possible by the support of the Department of Sports, Arts and Culture, the City of Cape Town and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

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Family and Forgiveness

OBF2024: Family and Forgiveness

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this discussion, Michèle Betty and Damilare Kuku speak to Sue Nyamnjoh about paths to acceptance.This event [...]

The Absent and the Present

OBF2024: The Absent and the Present

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this discussion, Charmaine Africa, Alistair Mackay and Thobeka Yose speak to Lester Kiewit about writing fathers.This [...]

Colonialism and Fracture

Colonialism and Fracture

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024.In this discussion, Siphokazi Jonas, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu and Lebogang Seale speak to Mapule Mohulatsi about rebuilding the [...]

Class Acts(1)

OBF2024: Class Acts

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024.In this discussion, Nicky Greenwall, Alistair Mackay and Zibu Sithole discuss writing privilege in their entertaining novels in [...]

Bringing up Feminist Boys

OBF2024: Bringing Up Feminist Boys

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024.In this discussion, Barbara Boswell, Pumla Dineo Gqola and Philippa Namutebi Kabali-Kagwa speak to Floretta Boonzaier about raising [...]

Love and Other Toxins

OBF2024: Love and Other Toxins

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024.In this discussion, Sven Axelrad, Shubnum Khan and Alex Latimer speak to Dela Gwala about the many faces [...]

Queerness and the Divine

OBF2024: Queerness and the Divine

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this event, Ohene Yaw Ampofo-Anti, Siya Khumalo, Maneo Mohale and Eloghosa Osunde speak to Lwando Scott [...]

The Personal as Political

OBF2024: Personal as Political

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024.In this discussion, Barbara Boswell, Margie Orford and Buntu Siwisa chat to Andrew Brown about their latest books. [...]

Poetry as Medicine

OBF2024: Poetry as Medicine

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024.In this discussion, Michèle Betty and Shari Daya speak to Bibi Burger about the possibilities of writing as [...]

Feminist Imaginings _ Creative Practice

OBF2024: Feminist Imaginings | Creative Practice

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024.Barbara Boswell, Pumla Dineo Gqola and Gothataone Moeng speak to Mbali Sikakana. This event is in collaboration with [...]