Poli Poli

By (author): Barbara Masekela. A memoir by South African poet, educator and anti-apartheid activist Barbara Masekela, tracing her family across generations — from her business-owning grandmother after the South African War, through her parents' lives under apartheid, to her own university years in Lesotho and eventual exile in Ghana. Woven through the personal history are reflections on belonging, African identity, women's rights and femininity, written with what critics have called the lyricism of "one of the country's greatest wordsmiths."