The Yesu's Baboon Podcast

Episode 004 — In which Miss Heron comes into existence

Gerhard storytells about how Koyati's first, and traumatic, meeting with miss Heron.

Episode 003 — In the first chapter of Yesu's Baboon, we meet The Trickster.

Gerhard starts out on a storytelling journey. The first chapter tells about Koyati, The Trickster. Koyati is very young, but he's on death row in the City Central prison in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Episode 002 — Yesu's Baboon: Origins of the novel.

How it all started: Gerhard talks about the late (and very great) Dr. Yaroslav Pelikan, his collection of creeds, and specifically the Maasai Creed. And how the Maasai Creed inspired Yesu's Baboon.

Episode 001 — How the novel 'Yesu's Baboon' came into being

Gerhard Venter, the author of a BFAN (Big Fat African Novel) talks about the book, reads a bunch of passages, and explains how they came about. This is the introduction.