Inheritance

In 2021, Athambile Masola burst onto the South African poetry scene with her groundbreaking - and now celebrated - debut collection, 'Ilifa', written in her home language of isiXhosa. Writing from a storied literary tradition, Masola's breezy love poems and historical re-imaginings boldly questioned the meaning of freedom in a society that is openly hostile to women, and where apartheid has been replaced by other ominous oppressions. These daring, modern and inventive poems are now in English, t