When South African comedian and musical satirist Tats Nkonzo sits down with Kojo Baffoe, laughter becomes a way of working through generational reckonings – from fathers and family businesses to childhood characters, mental health and the country their children will inherit.

In this episode of Listen To Your Footsteps, Tats reflects on growing up as the last born in a loving but complicated family, watching his father carry responsibility and choosing which parts of that inheritance he is willing to accept. He and Kojo unpack how art, stand‑up comedy and recorded conversations become a living archive, giving their kids language and context for who their parents are and why they made certain decisions.

Together they move through stories of family businesses, neighbourhood patrols, community WhatsApp groups and the people they now recognise as people living with unspoken pain. They interrogate birth order, masculinity, duty, mental illness and the tension between African communal life and modern urban individualism – always returning to the question of what we actually pass on when we say we love our families and our country.

If you are a creative, a parent or a South African wrestling with your own generational story, this conversation will remind you that laughter is often how we touch the hardest truths and still move forward together.

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