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In Conversation #004 - On Opportunity, Boys and the Future | Dr Mzamo Masito Ralph Ofuyo
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In Conversation #002 – On Trauma, Masculinity & Healing
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Recorded in August 2025, this episode features a long-form conversation with Onyango Otieno (Rixpoet) — trauma coach, writer, poet, mental health advocate, and host of the Afro-Masculinity Podcast.
We discuss Onyango’s personal journey through childhood violence, depression, and sexual abuse, and how those experiences shaped his work with men and his thinking on masculinity. The conversation explores silence, intergenerational trauma, patriarchy, feminism, and the difficulty many African men face in finding spaces where vulnerability is possible.
This is an open, reflective conversation that moves between personal experience and wider social questions, without rushing toward conclusions.
⚠️ Explicit content:
This episode includes discussion of sexual abuse, violence, mental health, and suicide.
Book recommendation:
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love — bell hooks
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