Open Book Podcast

OBF2025: Book Lounge Feminist Book Club with Michelle Myeko Kekana

23 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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

OBF2025: The Loss Rate

21 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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...

OBF2025: What the Water Gave Me

19 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this event, Veruska De Vita, Traci Kwaai and Malika Ndlovu speak to Zolani Mahola about the work of reclaiming ancestral and intimate connections t...

OBF2025: Recovering from Childhood

16 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this event Sven Axelrad, Lebo Mazibuko and Ntombifuthi Nkabinde speak to Lufefe Boss about working through the trauma left by problematic parents. ...

OBF2025: Facing Death

14 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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...

OBF2025: Up Close with Maneo | Tsitsi Dangarembga

14 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this event, Maneo Mohale speaks to literary icon, Tsitsi Dangarembga, about bearing witness to complex states of Black girlhood in her powerful wor...

OBF2025: Feminist Imaginary | Speaking into Silence

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Open Book Festival is an annual literary event in Cape Town featuring panelists from all over the writing and publishing spheres. It is a place where ...

OBF2025: Spirituality in the Now

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this event Siphokazi Jonas and Vusumzi Ngxande speak to Vuyo Koyana about reclaiming a spiritual inheritance and returning to the heart/core of Isi...

OBF2025: Queer Anxiety

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this event, Nkgopoleng Moloi, Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal and Lwando Scott speak to Rebecca Davis about the safety of queer people on our continent ...

OBF2025: Slam City Showcase

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cape Town’s premier poetry slam proudly presents the Slam City Showcase!A celebration of new talent, lyrical grit, and poetic brilliance in differen...

OBF2025: Better Late | What Goes on at the Open Book Literary Festival?

03 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Better Late is where the country’s most brilliant, bewildering, and occasionally unhinged creatives - Yaaseen Barnes and Callum Hitchcock - band tog...

OBF2025: The Poetics of I

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this event, Kopano Maroga, Manthipe Moila and Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal speak to each other through their poetry. Please note the readings will be...

OBF2025: Make Noise & Hold All Applause with Lesedi Molefi

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival. This session dives into the link between ...

OBF2025: Spec Fic and Science

26 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Mara...

OBF2025: Why So Serious

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival. In this event, Tom Eaton, Paige Nick and ...

OBF2025: RMF 10 Years Later

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A moment to reflect on the impact of Queer, Trans and Worker activism on RMF and FMF: Mam' Nozi, Kealeboga Mase Ramaru, Carbon Wandile Dlamini and...

OBF2025: Stories of Rebellion

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival. In this event Foluso Agbaje, Lesedi Molef...

OBF2025: Exploring the Queer Imaginary

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival. In this event Kelly-Eve Koopman, Kopano M...

OBF2025: Finding Lightness

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

OBF2025: African Cosmologies as a World of Magnitude

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Open Book Festival is an annual literary event in Cape Town featuring panelists from all over the writing and publishing spheres. It is a place where ...

OBF2025: Tensions of Home

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival. In this event, Antjie Krog, Frankie Murre...

OBF2025: Inherited Systems

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival. In this event, Rebecca Gore, Adekeye Adeb...

OBF2025: Unsettled Accounts | The Interpreters

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival. In this event, Alexandra Dodd, Bongani Ko...

OBF2025: Conversations with Mohale | Are We Tired Yet?

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival. In this event, Pumla Dineo Gqola, Goretti...

OBF2025: Director's Choice | Literary Spaces and Belonging

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival. In this event, Festival Director Mervyn S...

OBF2025: Traumatised Cities

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival. In this event, David Cornwell, Caryn Doll...

OBF2025: Created in Africa

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival. In this event, Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, James M...

OBF2025: The Body Keeps the Score

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival. In this event, Popina Khumanda, Malika Nd...

OBF2025: The Republic

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival. In this event, Wale Lawal, editor at The ...

OBF2025: Queering Intimacy

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival. In this event, Azille Coetzee, Alistair M...

OBF2025: Out of this World and into the Next

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival. In this event, renowned theoretical physi...

OBF2025: From Panafricanism to the Black Atlantic

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival. In this event, Adekeye Adebajo and Bibi B...

OBF2025: Fluency and Trauma

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival. In this event, Siphokazi Jonas, Athambile...

OBF2025: Difficult Mothers

10 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival.In this event, Antjie Krog, Lebo Mazibuko ...

OBF2025: Living in Crisis

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival. In this event, Veruska de Vita, Saliem Fa...

OBF2025: The Secret Keepers

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival.In this event, Nadia Cassim, Bonnie Espie ...

OBF2025: Building on the Past

03 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival.In this event, Foluso Agbaje, Zara Julius ...

OBF2025: No Signs of Justice

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival. In this event, Caryn Dolley, Rebecca Gore...

OBF2025: Banging on the Walls of the Tank

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival.In this event, Haidar Eid speaks to Usuf C...

OBF2024: Gathering Our Voices

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024.This event closed out the 2024 Open Book Festival with po...

OBF2024: Director's Cut | Talking Process

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this event, Lesedi Molefi, Margie Orford and Hedley T...

OBF2024: Life is Cheap

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this conversation, Olivia Coetzee, Karen Jennings and...

OBF2024: Trigger Warning

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this conversation, Andries du Toit, Lesedi Molefi a...

OBF2024: Journeys to Self

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this conversation, Damilare Kuku, Kharys Laue and No...

OBF2024: Visibility and Chronic Conditions

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this conversation, Nadine Dirks and Lesedi Molefi sp...

OBF2024: Portrait of Community

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this conversation, Gaireyah Fredericks, Hamza Koudri...

OBF2024: Bad Women

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this conversation, Qarnita Loxton, Niq Mhlongo and Z...

OBF2024: Everyday Violence

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this discussion, Busisekile Khumalo, Caitlin Stobie ...

OBF2024: Up Close with Maneo

20 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. Join Maneo Mohale and Koleka Putuma for a session explo...

OBF2024: Writing Sisters

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this conversation, Hamza Koudri, Damilare Kuku and Z...

OBF2024: Understanding Exile

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this event, Oyama Mabandla, Uhuru Phalafala and Lind...

OBF2024: Chosen Family

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this conversation, Sven Axelrad, Gothataone Moeng and...

OBF2024: Queer Freedom

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this discussion, Siya Khumalo and Eloghosa Osunde sp...

OBF2024: Navigating Religious Trauma

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this discussion, Siphokazi Jonas, Pontsho Pilane and ...

OBF2024: Living Dystopian Realities

12 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this discussion, Nick Clelland, Olivia Coetzee and T...

OBF2024: Patriarchy and Desire

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this event, Busisekile Khumalo, Hamza Koudri and Zuk...

OBF2024: The Dispossessed

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this event, Haidar Eid, Uhuru Phalafala and Lebogan...

OBF2024: The Archive of Everyday

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this discussion, Shubnum Khan, Nathan Trantraal and ...

OBF2024: Trust Issues

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this discussion, Oyama Mabandla, Alan Storey and Joy...

OBF2024: Cities of Trauma

27 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this discussion, Karen Jennings, Alistair Mackay an...

OBF2024: Reading the Streets

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this conversation, Ohene Yaw Ampofo-Anti, Gothataone...

OBF2024: Uncontrollable Bodies

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this conversation, Busisekile Khumalo, Siya Khumalo ...

OBF2024: Listening Party | Koleka Putuma

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. A sonic conversation with Koleka Putuma and Dani Kyengo...

OBF2024: Family and Forgiveness

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 spe...

OBF2024: The Absent and the Present

14 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 an...

OBF2024: Class Acts

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 an...

OBF2024: Colonialism and Fracture

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 Ndl...

OBF2024: Love and Other Toxins

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

OBF2024: Queerness and the Divine

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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, Mane...

OBF2024: The Personal as Political

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 B...

OBF2024: Poetry as Medicine

25 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

OBF2024: Feminist Imaginings | Creative Practice

24 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 Moen...

OBF2024: Stories to Save Lives

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this discussion, Siphokazi Jonas, Lesedi Molefi and M...

OBF2024: Conversations with Mohale | Celebrating Unruly Women

17 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. Pumla Dineo Gqola, Damilare Kuku and Zukiswa Wanner cel...

OBF2024: Finding Ways to Talk

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. Megan Choritz, Haidar Eid and Nathi Ngubane discuss sof...

OBF2023: Black and Female

14 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2023. In this event, Lebohang Masango, Thandiwe Ntshinga and S...

OBF2023: Heritage Politics

14 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2023. In this event, Tessa Dooms, Nadia Kamies and Patric Tari...

OBF2023: Coming of Age

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2023. In this event, Marina Auer, Diane Awerbuck and Moshitadi...

OBF2023: Queerness and Cape Town

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2023. In this event, Zoey Black, Maneo Mohale and Manila von T...

OBF2023: Reimagining Rituals

01 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2023. Hugo ka Canham, Maneo Mohale and Jarred Thompson speak t...

OBF2023: The Performance of Normal

01 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2023. In this event, Sarah Isaacs, Wisani Mushwana and Gail Sc...

OBF2023: Enduring Connections

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2023. In this event, Sven Axelrad, Sam Beckbessinger and Busis...

OBF2023: Motivations for Writing

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2023. Athambile Masola, Nombeko Nontshokweni and Nana Darkoa S...

OBF2023: Acts of War

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2023. In this event, Andrew Brown, Craig Higginson and Farai M...

OBF2023: Nobuntu

30 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2023. This is Q&A session with Nombeko and Sihle-isipho No...

OBF2023: Based on Truth

30 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2023. In this event, Craig Higginson, Wanjiru Koinange and Dav...

OBF2023: Cape Town City Stories | African Cities as Text

27 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2023. In this event, Caryn Dolley, Patric Tariq Mellet and Cha...

OBF2023: Constructed Identities

26 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2023. In this event, Lynsey Ebony Chutel, Thandiwe Ntshinga an...

OBF2023: Fracture

26 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2023. In this event, Sarah Lubala, Maneo Mohale and Uhuru Phal...

OBF2023: Compelled to Speak

26 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2023. Festival Coordinator, Frankie Murrey, is forced on stage...

OBF2023: Collecting the Words

25 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2023. In this event, Diane Awerbuck, Sue Nyamnjoh and Zibu Si...

OBF2023: Surviving Masculinity

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2023. In this event, Sipho Banda, Hugo ka Canham and Morabo Mo...

OBF2023: Connecting to the Self

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2023. In this event, Nadia Kamies, Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu and D...

OBF2023: The Way of Water

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2023. In this event, Ron Irwin, Farai Mudzingwa and Marita van...

OBF2023: Teamwork

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2023. In this event, Sam Beckbessinger & Dale Halvorsen an...

OBF2023: Feminist Imaginings

23 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2023. In this event, Pumla Dineo Gqola, Jennifer Nansubuga Ma...

OBF2023: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

23 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2023. In this event, John Maytham talks to Mills Soko about sc...

OBF2023: Conversations with Mohale

23 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2023. In the annual event hosted by Mohale Mashigo, Pumla Dine...

OBF2023: Queering the Page

23 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2023. In this event, Wisani Mushwana, SJ Naude and Pieter Oden...

OBF2023: Poets in Conversation

20 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2023. This platform offers the poets an opportunity to consid...