Amabookabooka

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Amabookabooka is a novel podcast about books and the people who write them. It's easy listening, quirky, informative and a great way for readers to get to know some of their favourite authors.

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AmaBookaBooka - Stanley Manong

Amabookabooka

05/03/17 • 19 min

This week's episode of Amabookabooka features Stanley Manong, who has written If We Must Die - a compelling memoir about life as a soldier in the ANC’s army. This episode was recorded in 2015.

AmaBookaBooka - Bram Fischer

Amabookabooka

04/21/17 • 32 min

This is a special edition of Amabookabooka – it’s from a previous podcast series we produced called Extraordinary Lives. This episode, recorded two years ago, was never released and we’re releasing it now to coincide with the 109th anniversary of the birth of Bram Fischer – the South African prime minster we should have had.

Amabookabooka Sue Brown

Amabookabooka

11/20/17 • 23 min

Today's author is Sue Brown whose memoir, The Twinkling of An Eye, is one of the most difficult books you will ever read, but you should read it because you get to meet Chris Brown, a remarkable young man - and hear about a mother's heroic fight against her son's rare brain tumour.

Amabookabooka Sara-Jayne King

Amabookabooka

10/16/17 • 29 min

Today's author is Sara-Jayne King, a journalist, talk radio host and adoptee who has written the riveting memoir Killing Karoline.

AmaBookaBooka - Philani Dladla

Amabookabooka

03/29/17 • 20 min

Today's guest on Amabookabooka is Philani Dladla, whose memoir, The Pavement Bookworm, is an inspiring story from life on the pavement to life as a published author.

AmaBookaBooka - Bridget Hilton-Barber

Amabookabooka

03/22/17 • 21 min

BLURB: After spending three months in detention in the 1980s student activist Bridget Hilton-Barber discovered she had been betrayed by one of her best friends, Olivia “Olive” Forsyth, who was a member of the apartheid security police also known as "Branch". Three decades later Hilton-Barber talks to Amabookabooka about betrayal, forgiveness and what to do when you accidentally cook your laptop (besides panic).

Amabookabooka Imraan Coovadia

Amabookabooka

12/04/17 • 18 min

Today's episode of Amabookabooka was recorded in 2015 and features Imraan Coovadia, author of The Wedding, Green-Eyed Thieves, High Low In-between, and The Institute for Taxi Poetry and Tales of the Metric. Imraan, a UCT professor, has won all the South African literary awards that matter.

Amabookabooka George Euvrard

Amabookabooka

12/18/17 • 32 min

Today’s Amabookabooka guest is Tom to my Jerry; Moriarty to my Holmes; Lex Luthor to my Superman; Newman to my Seinfeld; and Gupta to my Gordhan.

Amabookabooka Jonathan Ancer

Amabookabooka

12/11/17 • 25 min

Amabookabooka's Jonathan Ancer talks about his book Spy: Uncovering Craig Williamson.

Amabookabooka Raymond Suttner

Amabookabooka

10/02/17 • 35 min

Today’s guest is anti-apartheid activist and jailbird, who while he was in prison kept his own jail bird – a beautiful green and blue-tailed lovebird who ate out of his mouth and sat on his shoulder. Raymond Suttner was imprisoned for more than 11 years. His struggle memoir, Inside Apartheid’s Prison, has been re-issued with an introduction dealing with his more recent life outside the ANC

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