Cee and Zainab join Mabel Thandi to chat about our earliest memories of reading, they discuss the too European set reading lists we had to endure and the pain of having to read books that were not representative. Luckily times have changed and the range of books now available for us is growing remarkably, we each share our top 5 books, no surprise …

Dating while black in Cape Town can be a traumatising experience. I got four beautiful black creatives in a room for one of the messiest, most honest episodes we have done to date. We talk about ghosting, vibing, tinder, libraries, dating no nos and a lot of in betweens. Tell us your thoughts of the podcast in the comments.…

The first two episodes have been serious so while we wait for the next serious topic to be edited we thought we would talk about something lighter, something many of us talk about way too much. Hair and especially 4C hair. What is a 4C crown you may wonder? Mabel Thandi sat down to speak to Zainab about the journey of loving and understanding nappy…

In this episode Mabel Thandi is in Bray, a town on the border of Dublin and Wicklow, talking to her nephew Ishy and brother JP about how it feels to be black in Dublin. As a back story they moved to Ireland in 2001, this was in the midst of the economic boom and when seeing a black face was rare. JP was 9 and Ishy 5, and Mabel Thandi was 17 and goi…

There is a perception that being black in Cape Town can be an alienating experience.There is the breaking news, tweets and stats to back this up but we at notaboo are interested in the stories of individuals and their experiences, always.So we got 3 different creatives in a room to share their experiences on how it feels to be black in cape town. H…