Writer, documentary filmmaker, photographer, conceptual copywriter, and author of Patient 12A, Lesedi Molefi carries more titles than most, but at the heart of all of them is a single, unshakeable ethic: the restoration of dignity.

In this rich conversation with host Kojo Baffoe, Lesedi reflects on a childhood lived across cities, a mother who used books, music, and protest marches as tools of political education, and the turbulent creative journey that led him from a photography studio to a mental health clinic - and ultimately to one of the most quietly radical memoirs in recent South African literature.

Together, Kojo and Lesedi interrogate the pressure to monetise passion, the forgotten art of the hobby, what it means to be a "work in progress" memoirist, the difference between survivingand thriving, and why the world outside the clinic may be far less sane than the world within it.

They also discuss the writing of Patient 12A - why Lesedi almost didn't publish it, the frustrating public reception that reduced a nuanced work to "Black man has feelings," and why truth, even when it's complicated, is still an act of love.

And Lesedi teases his next book.

This one goes deep. Don't miss it.

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