A memoir of

pop culture, girls

… and apartheid

“Such skill, such honesty and above all, such drop-everything-
and-laugh-out-loud humour.”
                                                                                      – Alexandra Fuller    

Ja, No, Man is an eerily familiar portrayal of the life of an ordinary white South African growing up during apartheid-era South Africa. Told with extraordinary humour and self-awareness, Richard’s story brings his gradual understanding of the difference between his country and the rest of the world vividly to life.

A startlingly original memoir that veers sharply from the quotidian to the bizarre and back again, Ja, No, Man is an enlightening, darkly hilarious and, at times, disturbing read.

THE AUTHOR

Richard was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1973 and emigrated to Canada with his family in 1989. He trained as a film-maker and fine artist at Montreal’s Concordia University and has produced and directed numerous short films, music videos and commercials.  Now a full-time writer, he can be found learning to play polo, chasing big game in Africa, investigating German sub-sub cultures in Namibia, eating at TGI Fridays in the Middle East, bowling in Kazakhstan, racing Mercedes sports sedans in Russia – all for publications as diverse as THIS Magazine, Toronto Life, The Globe & Mail, CBC.ca/arts and Bicycling.

Ja, No, Man is his first book.

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