Listen To Your Footsteps

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, he passed away in January 2021.

This episode is a conversation I had with Wandi in March 2020. It was at a restaurant in Johannesburg, Blaque Bistro, in front of a small, intimate audience. The event was an experiment. What was to be the start of a series, which Wandi was helping me on. As an afterthought, I pressed record on my phone, which was on a table between us. That recording is this episode.

We talked about Wandi's journey from Soweto to establishing the first South African streetwear brand, heading up and building Soweto TV, and everything in-between.

Technical producer + editor: Nhlangano Chabalala

Theme music: Kweku Baffoe

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 defies labels, even when the outside world seeks to define him too narrowly. 

You can find him on Instagram and Twitter. I am still trying to get him to start a website.

This conversation could have gone on for so much longer and it was hard work to nip it in the bud otherwise it would have.

Technical producer + editor: Nhlangano Chabalala

Theme music: Kweku Baffoe

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 Footsteps, a collection of essays, reflections and poems focused particularly on fatherhood, being raised by my father, identity and loss. 

The Listen To Your Footsteps podcast is an extension of my journey to date and explores art, culture, design, business and life from an African perspective. My guest for the first show is Papama Mtwisha, an old friend whose journey I have been fortunate enough to have a front row seat on. She is a fashion designer and owner of two growing brands, Butter Pudding and Africa Your Time Is Now.

In this episode, I have a conversation with Papama about her journey, bucking the family trend by doing into fashion, launching and building a business, being a mother and an African.

Technical producer: Nhlangano Chabalala

Theme music: Kweku Baffoe

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 terms of making sense of both the world but also. Just drawing lessons from the different experiences that I've had. In this podcast, I'll be chatting to a full range of young and old Africans exploring creativity, identity, fatherhood and everything in between.

Technical producer: Nhlangano Chabalala

Theme music: Kweku Baffoe