Author Profile
LEBO MASHILE
 LEBO MASHILE is a young South
African poet, actress (Hotel
Rwanda), life skills facilitator and TV series executive
producer and presenter (L’Attitude on SABC 1).
In 2003, she co-founded the Feela Sistah Spoken Word Collective, the
first poetry collective of its kind in South Africa.
She has performed at many important events locally, including Thabo
Mbeki’s Presidential Inauguration, and internationally in Jamaica,
Cuba, Switzerland, Austria, England and the Yarri Yarri Phambari
Writers’ Conference in New York.
Her first volume of poetry, In a Ribbon of Rhythm, won the Noma
Award for Publishing in Africa for 2006, and she recently produced and
recorded Lebo Mashile Live! a musical mix of her poetry with
hip-hop and R&B, recorded live with a 9-piece band. Cosmopolitan
nominated her one of South Africa’s Awesome Women of
2005.
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