Part-time Human
Part-Time Human is a podcast about the examined life, hosted by Jabulile 'Kyu' Sigola from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Each episode features long, unhurried conversations with artists, thinkers, creators, and cultural figures. The show explores themes of identity, faith, family, and the slow work of becoming, grounded in real African experience. It is designed for anyone who takes their inner life seriously and is curious about people, not personas.
Episodes
Melisa Matshazi : What Therapy Sees That Families Hide
This week, Melisa joins Part Time Human for a conversation about family therapy, identity, culture, and the systems that quietly shape us. A family psychotherapist, entrepreneur,, and someone whose life has stretched across different countries , she brings both professional insight and personal experience into the room.We talk about family dynamics across cultures, poverty, access to therapy, reli
Brilliant Delani 'Brintz' Ncube : The Weight of the First Born Son
What happens when a boy becomes the man of the house before becoming himself? This week, Zimbabwean hip hop artist Brintz joins Part Time Human for a conversation about pressure, responsibility, masculinity, and the hidden weight many first born sons carry in silence. We talk about growing up too early, becoming the "strong one," emotional suppression in African homes, family expectations, surviva
Sondlane 'Sox the Poet' Dube : Masculinity Unperfomed
Sondlane 'Sox the Poet' Dube on expressing emotion in spaces designed to suppress it. We talk about what it costs men to stay silent, why building support systems matters, and the strange economics of ambition, accumulating everything except a sense of self. Plus why men are disappearing from the conversation entirely.
Musa Sibanda : Leaving the Shadow, A Pastor's son uncovers his own voice
In this episode of Part Time Human, I talk to Musawenkosi, a pastor's son who grew up under a heavy weight of expectation. As the first male guest on the podcast, he shares how he balanced faith, family pressure, and the search for his own identity. He talks about leaving church life early, the challenges of defining manhood on his own terms, and the friendships that helped him find his voice. Thi
Vuyo Brown : Most of what we inherit comes without an explanation
The grief ritual. The family role. The cultural practice. Nobody tells you why. You just do it. Until you stop. And realise you never understood it in the first place.Nokufeza 'Vuyo Brown' Ngwenya is someone who stopped early. Identity, for her, is not inherited by default. It is examined, tested, and chosen. She does not practise what she cannot explain. She does not perform culture for the sake
Chioniso 'Chichi' Tsikisayi : A name. A meal. A cycle. A choice.
Culture. Family history. Expectation. The people who shaped you before you had words for any of it.Chioniso 'Chichi Celeste' Tsikisayi is a Zimbabwean poet, writer, filmmaker and playwright. In this conversation, we trace what she's carried through her art, through her grandparents' steady presence, through seven cycles of life and what she chose to keep.We talk about names, food as living memory
Yolanda Ngwenya : The version of yourself you had to kill to grow
In this episode of Part Time Human, Yolanda and I trace the versions of herself she's had to leave behind ; the one shaped by an academic home, the one formed abroad in the United States and Berlin, the one that had to reconcile African identity with Christian faith. We talk about what studying abroad does to your sense of home, how culture shock works both ways, and why fashion became her languag
Abigail Nyasha Hunda : Shedding the role your family gave you
What kind of child were you and who did you become because of it?In this episode, Abigail Nyasha Hunda reflects on growing up as the middle child, learning to adapt, observe, and perform in different spaces. We explore how family roles shape identity, her personal transition from Christianity to Islam, and how art became a language for reclaiming self. A conversation about inherited roles, qu
PRELUDE : Full-time Everything ( featuring Yolanda Ngwenya)
Before the archive opens, there is a moment of stillness.In this prelude to PART-TIME HUMAN, we sit with Yolanda Ngwenya — Creative Director of Bakhar, a member of the Fashion Council of Zimbabwe and cultural thinker to trace the making of the self we show the world. We talk about public identity. Expectation. The quiet burden of becoming everything for everyone. The strange reversal of raising th
This is... Part-time human
What happens in the hours people do not see?Part Time Human explores the lives behind the titles. Artists, creators, leaders, and cultural voices speak about the parts of life work rarely shows. Growth. Identity. Pressure. Change.These conversations focus on the human side of ambition. The doubts. The shifts. The moments that reshape a person.Jabulile Kyu ,sits with people across culture, media, a
