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Resource Type: Essential Books, Podcasts and Youtube
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The Art of Manliness Podcast
One of the longest-running and most substantive podcasts on masculinity. Covers everything from the history of male rites of passage to practical skills, philosophy, physical fitness, and emotional resilience. Recommended from adolescence onwards.
The Boy Crisis Podcast
Companion to the book. Farrell interviews researchers, practitioners, and parents on the specific challenges facing boys — from education to fatherhood to mental health. Clear, data-grounded, and compassionate.
The Kaya FM Podcast Network
Kaya 959's programming regularly addresses masculinity, mental health, and family. Their conversations on the African male experience are grounded in South African social reality.
The Therapy for Black Girls Podcast
Hosted by Dr. Joy Harden Bradford. While centred on Black women's mental health, the show regularly addresses intergenerational trauma, Black fathers, and the family systems that shape Black children. South African listeners will find deep resonance.
The Masito Conversations — African Men Care
Hosted by Dr. Mzamo Masito. Conversations at the intersection of African masculinity, behavioural science, and social entrepreneurship. Available on major podcast platforms.
I Write What I Like
Biko's collected writings on Black Consciousness include a radical rethinking of Black male dignity and self-determination. The psychological liberation argument is as urgent today as when it was first written.
The Wretched of the Earth
Fanon's masterwork on colonial violence and its psychological consequences remains indispensable for understanding how colonialism specifically targeted and deformed African masculinity. Required reading for any serious engagement with Black male identity
A Human Being Died That Night: A South African of forgiveness
A profound psychological exploration of trauma, perpetration, and moral repair, using the figure of Eugene de Kock as a lens for understanding what apartheid did to men and to the moral architecture of South African society.
Bring Black to the World
Professor Ratele at the Human Sciences Research Council is South Africa's leading scholarly voice on African masculinity, male psychology, and what he calls "liberatory African masculinities." His essays, lectures, and public writing are essential. Follow his academic output through UNISA and HSRC. .
The Country Hates our Men (Boys)
The anchor text for this companion. An unflinching examination of how South African society fails boys, from absent fathers to educational mismatch, from economic exclusion to the cultural scripts that leave boys alone in the most consequential years of their formation.
