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Khaya Dlanga

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
466 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

And the third book was... What was my third? Oh, these things really do happen to me.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

And the third book was... What was my third? Oh, these things really do happen to me.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

It was a lot of... It was like these Uber driver stories, but like way more crazy ones. Yeah. And then it's the answers for me, which was very different.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

It was a lot of... It was like these Uber driver stories, but like way more crazy ones. Yeah. And then it's the answers for me, which was very different.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

So this one I actually wrote during COVID. I live with my brother and he's not there anymore. I can't bump into him. I could walk around naked. So now he had, so I just started asking people questions online. One of the, I mean, when I think of one of the questions was, what have you never said to your parents that you wish you had said to your parents?

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

So this one I actually wrote during COVID. I live with my brother and he's not there anymore. I can't bump into him. I could walk around naked. So now he had, so I just started asking people questions online. One of the, I mean, when I think of one of the questions was, what have you never said to your parents that you wish you had said to your parents?

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

And the things that people said were so heavy that, And then eventually people say to me, can you please put the answers like in a book?

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

And the things that people said were so heavy that, And then eventually people say to me, can you please put the answers like in a book?

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

And I put those answers. That's why it's very different. I always, is it a book? I don't know.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

And I put those answers. That's why it's very different. I always, is it a book? I don't know.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

But I'm with you. And then now this one, which is the one that I'm working on now, which is done actually. It's gone to the printers, I think on the 27th.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

But I'm with you. And then now this one, which is the one that I'm working on now, which is done actually. It's gone to the printers, I think on the 27th.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

Yeah, so it's like, the pictures are, life is like that sometimes. And again, I talk about the village and then towards the end, obviously, I talk about, you know, my brother, the journey that he had to go through with him and losing my mother as well. So, and it's like this journey of life, you know, and I always say that

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

Yeah, so it's like, the pictures are, life is like that sometimes. And again, I talk about the village and then towards the end, obviously, I talk about, you know, my brother, the journey that he had to go through with him and losing my mother as well. So, and it's like this journey of life, you know, and I always say that

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

When I look at my books, I think I kind of try to just post-rationalize them in the sense that I say it's almost looking at not recording history, but how we live life while history is happening. So...

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

When I look at my books, I think I kind of try to just post-rationalize them in the sense that I say it's almost looking at not recording history, but how we live life while history is happening. So...

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

If, for example, if I talk about, so in the village, I were to take the bus, wake up at four, you know, at four with my gran, who then take us to the school and take a bus and if the river was too high, then we have to wait until, you know, all of those kinds of things. That is a consequence of apartheid, for example. So this is how we lived during apartheid.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

If, for example, if I talk about, so in the village, I were to take the bus, wake up at four, you know, at four with my gran, who then take us to the school and take a bus and if the river was too high, then we have to wait until, you know, all of those kinds of things. That is a consequence of apartheid, for example. So this is how we lived during apartheid.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

And then, so what happens when Nelson Mandela comes out of prison? Oh, they open schools to black kids too. Then I go to a school with white people and people in the township see me wearing a school uniform. This little primary 12 year old, you know, wearing these clothes that they only see white kids wearing to school. And then they will stop you on the street and be like, can you speak English?

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

And then, so what happens when Nelson Mandela comes out of prison? Oh, they open schools to black kids too. Then I go to a school with white people and people in the township see me wearing a school uniform. This little primary 12 year old, you know, wearing these clothes that they only see white kids wearing to school. And then they will stop you on the street and be like, can you speak English?