Season 3 Episode 11: In Conversation with Musa Okwonga
In The End, It Was All About Love is a journey of loss and self-acceptance that takes its nameless narrator all the way through bustling Berlin to his roots, a quiet village on the Uganda-Sudan border. It is a bracingly honest story of love, sexuality, and spirituality, of racism, dating, and alienation; of fleeing the greatest possible pain, and of the hopeful road home.
Musa Okwonga is a writer, poet, journalist, podcaster and musician who lives in Berlin. In this episode, we talk about Musa’s fantastic new book, In The End, It Was All About Love, as well as feminism, grief, sex, Eton, and moving to a new city.
SHOW NOTES:
Buy a copy of In The End, It Was All About Love
http://roughtradebooks.com/books/in-the-end-it-was-all-about-love-2/
The Good Agency
https://www.thegoodliteraryagency.org/
https://www.instagram.com/thegoodagencyuk/?hl=en
Rough Trade Books
https://www.instagram.com/roughtradebooks/?hl=en
Musa’s next book - One Of Them (out on April 15th)
https://unbound.com/books/one-of-them/
The Good Immigrant
https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-good-immigrant/9781783523955
Musa on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/okwonga/?hl=en
Your Passport - Live Performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbk11RWQ8oM
IG Live with Nikesh Shukla
https://www.instagram.com/p/CKwzA3aiVvb/
Stadio Football
https://www.instagram.com/stadiofootball/?hl=en
Jessica Horn - ‘East African feminist activist, writer, doer, interpreter of the ordinary’
https://www.stillsherises.com/
Songs My Enemy Taught Me - a poetry collection by Joelle Taylor
https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/products/songs-my-enemy-taught-me-by-joelle-taylor
Jennifer Neal on Twitter