Homebru Podcast with author Kojo Baffoe

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In the next Exclusive Books’ Homebru podcast, Jonathan Ancer chats to author Kojo Baffoe about his book Listen To Your Footsteps that embodies a collection of perspectives on what it means to be a multi-faceted man in complex times.

Kojo Baffoe embodies what it is to be a contemporary African man. Of Ghanaian and German heritage, he was raised in Lesotho and moved to South Africa at the age of 27.

Forever curious, Kojo has the enviable ability to simultaneously experience moments intimately and engage people (and their views) sincerely, while remaining detached enough to think through his experiences critically. He has earned a reputation as a thinker, someone who lives outside the box and free of the labels that society seeks to place on us.

Listen to Your Footsteps is an honest and, at times, raw collection of essays from a son, a father, a husband, a brother and a man deeply committed to doing the internal work. Kojo reflects on losing his mother as a toddler, being raised by his father, forming an identity, living as an immigrant, his tussles with substance abuse, as well as his experiences of fatherhood, marriage and making a career in a fickle industry. He gives an extended glimpse into the experiences that make boys become men, and the battles that make men discover what they are made of, all the while questioning what it means to be ‘a man’.

Tune in on Thursday 28 October at 1pm.

The podcast is available on iono.fm and the link will be posted for each episode in the Exclusive Books Fanatics email and on social media.

You can also send Exclusive Books your questions to the featured authors via voice note through their social media competition and stand a chance to win a R200 Exclusive Books voucher and your question featured in the podcast!

Details: exclusivebooks.co.za.

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