Poli Poli - Barbara Masekela | Signed

Poli Poli - Barbara Masekela

Signed

Binding:  Soft cover

Book Condition: Good condition

Edition: 2021

This is a memoir about the life of an extraordinary South African poet, educator, and activist that tells a lesser-known social history of people, families, communities and places. 

Poli Poli is intentional in grounding Masekelas experiences in a social history of the country over generations. Masekela uses her life story to illustrate the features and characteristics that typified life in particular places, like Kwa-Guqa in the 1940s, Johannesburg, Alexandra Township, and Inanda Seminary School (for Coloured girls) in Mpumalanga. 

This memoir is filled with intimate details about the growing pains of a childhood inhibited by strict beliefs and systems, first-hand experiences of struggle and sacrifice, violence and other forms of inhumanity and the deep scars they etch, while also telling the story of the authors life-giving relationship with her siblings. Poli Poli is a remarkable history that speaks to issues of then and now belonging, African identity, womens rights, and femininity, and is written in the lyricism and transporting detail of one of the countrys greatest wordsmiths.

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