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Book Lounge Feminist Book Club _ Michelle Myeko Kekana

OBF2025: Book Lounge Feminist Book Club with Michelle Myeko Kekana

In this event Noma Tsheleza facilitates an interactive conversation with Michelle Myeko Kekana, the author of The Fragile Mental Health of Strong Women. 

This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival. 

The festival is 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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Book Lounge Feminist Book Club _ Michelle Myeko Kekana

OBF2025: Book Lounge Feminist Book Club with Michelle Myeko Kekana

In this event Noma Tsheleza facilitates an interactive conversation with Michelle Myeko Kekana, the author of The Fragile Mental Health of Strong Women. This is a recording of a live event that took place at the [...]

The Loss Rate

OBF2025: The Loss Rate

In this event Wale Lawal, Athambile Masola and Moray Rhoda speak to Sue Nyamnjoh about meaning making in the age of AI. This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September [...]

What the Water Gave Me

OBF2025: What the Water Gave Me

In this event Veruska De Vita, Traci Kwaai and Malika Ndlovu speak to Zolani Mahola about the work of reclaiming ancestral and intimate connections to our rivers and oceans. This is a recording of a live [...]

Recovering From Childhood

OBF2025: Recovering from Childhood

In this event Sven Axelrad, Lebo Mazibuko and Ntombifuthi Nkabinde speak to Lufefe Boss about working through the trauma left by problematic parents. This is a recording of a live event that took place at the [...]

Facing Death

OBF2025: Facing Death

In this event, Foluso Agbaje, Rémy Ngamije and Sarah Uheida speak to Erin Bates about journeying with grief.This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the [...]

Up Close with Maneo Newsletter

OBF2025: Up Close with Maneo | Tsitsi Dangarembga

In this event, Maneo Mohale speaks to literary icon, Tsitsi Dangarembga, about bearing witness to complex states of Black girlhood in her powerful world-bending Tambudzai and Nyasha trilogy (Nervous Conditions, The Book of Not, This [...]

Feminist Imaginary _ Speaking into Silences

OBF2025: Feminist Imaginary | Speaking into Silence

In this event Foluso Agbaje, Pumla Dineo Gqola, Goretti Kyomuhendo and Athambile Masola speak to Mbali Sikakana about writing feminist histories, and filling in the gaps in the official archives. This is a recording of a [...]

Spirituality in the Now

OBF2025: Spirituality in the Now

In this event Siphokazi Jonas and Vusumzi Ngxande speak to Vuyo Koyana about reclaiming a spiritual inheritance and returning to the heart/core of Isintu. This is a recording of a live event that took place at [...]

Queer Anxiety

OBF2025: Queer Anxiety

In this event, Nkgopoleng Moloi, Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal and Lwando Scott speak to Rebecca Davis about the safety of queer people on our continent and in our cities. This is a recording of a live event [...]

Slam City Showcase From slam to fam 2

OBF2025: Slam City

Cape Town’s premier poetry slam proudly presents the Slam City Showcase!A celebration of new talent, lyrical grit, and poetic brilliance in different African languages. Each month, the city’s boldest voices battle it out for the [...]