Pan Macmillan is proud to be publishing Listen to Your Footsteps: Essays and Reflections by Kojo Baffoe.

Watch a short video of the author revealing the cover of his book:

A step closer to actually being a published author. The cover of #ListenToYourFootsteps. The lessons I have learned so far on this journey called life. Available for pre-order. @PanMacmillanSA pic.twitter.com/9oZFGgOudB

— Kojo Baffoe (@kojobaffoe) April 8, 2021

Kojo Baffoe embodies what it is to be a contemporary African man. Of Ghanaian and German heritage, he was raised in Lesotho and moved to South Africa at the age of 27.

Listen to Your Footsteps is an honest and, at times, raw collection of essays from a son, a father, a husband, a brother and a man deeply committed to doing the internal work.

‘My new book, Listen To Your Footsteps, is a collection of essays, thoughts and poems that are reflections on my journey to date and the lessons that I have learned, and continue to learn along the way. Who I am today was heavily shaped by my father, who raised me, by my steps and missteps in work, relationships and life, and by my children.’ – Kojo Baffoe

Baffoe reflects on losing his mother as a toddler, being raised by his father, forming an identity, living as an immigrant, his tussles with substance abuse, as well as his experiences of fatherhood, marriage and making a career.

He gives an extended glimpse into the experiences that make boys become men, and the battles that make men discover what they are made of, all the while questioning what it means to be ‘a man’.

Listen to Your Footsteps will be published in June 2021.

About the author

Kojo Baffoe is a writer, speaker, entrepreneur and self-proclaimed retired poet. He has published two collections of poetry, Voices in My Head along with And They Say: Black Men Don’t Write Love Poetry. He has edited magazines such as Blaque, Destiny Man and Afropolitan and is also the former host of ‘Life with Kojo Baffoe’ on Kaya FM.

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