Listen To Your Footsteps

In this episode of the Listen To Your Footsteps podcast, I chat to the multi-talented and hardworking comedian, actress, writer, speaker and producer Tumi Morake about how she went from Thaba Nchu in South Africa's Free State province to writing television scripts to telling jokes on stages around the world to hosting radio shows. We also chat about the challenges of having a partner in the same i...

In this episode of the Listen To Your Footsteps podcast, I chat to anthropologist, poet and author Lebohang Masango about her upbringing, her evolution as a poet, discovering anthropology, becoming a woman and how she used her love for children's books to write her own. You can find Lebohang on Twitter and Instagram . Editor: Tatenda Dizha Show Music: Kweku Baffoe

In this episode of Listen To Your Footsteps , I chat to Ndaba 'Zubz the Last Letta' Mabuye about growing up in Zimbabwe, discovering music, instrumentation and rhythms, studying at Rhodes University in South Africa, how he writes and creates music, the role that hip hop has played in his life, etc. While known predominantly as a rapper, Zubz is an information systems specialist and owner of M...

In this episode of Listen To Your Footsteps podcast, I chatted to Mokena Makeka , architect, designer, urbanist and curator about African design, navigating new spaces - having grown up in the US and Lesotho -, projects he's most proud, the poetry of architecture, and so much more. He also speaks on how hip hop helped him find his space moving to Cape Town, his forays into Agave spirit and comic b...

In this episode of Listen To Your Footsteps podcast, I chat to Mohale Mashigo about being a singing waitress, learning how to write songs, the origins of Black Porcelain, becoming disillusioned with the music industry and transitioning into writing fiction and comic books.  Mohale Mashigo is an award winning singer-songwriter and the author of the novel The Yearning and Intruders , a collecti...

This episode of Listen To Your Footsteps is a little different and was a little difficult to put together. Wandi 'DJ1D' Nzimande had many hats that he wore with aplomb, navigating them seamlessly - father, husband, friend, mentor, founder of Loxion Kulcha, television executive, deejay, broadcaster, brand strategist, marketer, content producer, etc. I was fortunate enough to call him friend. Sadly,...

In this episode of Listen To Your Footsteps podcast, I chat to Donovan Goliath about growing up in Mthatha, being in a rap group, finding purpose, manifesting creativity, not allowing oneself to get too comfortable, becoming a father and much more. Donovan Goliath is primarily known as a comedian but has been an artist, a graphic designer, an art director, amongst other labels. In his own way, he...

Welcome to the Listen to your Footsteps podcast. My name is Kojo Baffoe. Over the last twenty-plus years, I have worked in a variety of industries with the last fifteen or so being in the media industry in South Africa, as a TV researcher and producer, editor of three magazines, and host of a radio talk show. I am a writer, storyteller, content strategist and author of the book Listen To Your Foot...

Welcome to the Listen To Your Footsteps podcast, which is hosted by myself Kojo Baffoe. This is an extension of a book that I've recently released called Listen to your footsteps, which is a collection of essays, thoughts and reflections, and some poetry around the different things that I've learned. Traversing this world as an African and as a man as a father as a husband, as a human being in ter...