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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…
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 [...]
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
OBF2025: Better Late
Better Late is where the country’s most brilliant, bewildering, and occasionally unhinged creatives – Yaaseen Barnes and Callum Hitchcock – band together on the set of a Late Night TV show to get to…
OBF2025: The Poetics of I
In this event, Kopano Maroga, Manthipe Moila and Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal speak to each other through their poetry. Please note the readings will be followed by a short Q&A session. This is…
OBF2025: Spec Fic and Science
This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival. In this event, Jon Keevy and Adriana Marais speak to Wamuwi Mbao about the…
OBF2025: Stories of Rebellion
In this event Foluso Agbaje, Lesedi Molefi and Nathi Ngubane speak to Pumla Dineo Gqola about subverting power and fighting back. This is a recording of a live event that took place at the…
OBF2025: Exploring the Queer Imaginary
In this event Kelly-Eve Koopman, Kopano Maroga and Maneo Mohale speak to Lwando Scott about building alternate presents and futures. This is a recording of a live event that took place at the…
OBF2025: Finding Lightness
This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival. In this event Sven Axelrad, Khaya Dlanga and Karen Vermeulen speak to Dela Gwala about…
OBF2025: African Cosmologies as a World of Magnitude
In this event Zara Julius, Vusumzi Ngxande and Jeffrey Rakabe speak to Wanelisa Xaba about turning away from modernity and exploring the multilayeredness of African cosmologies. This is a…
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