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Lebogang Mashile

American based South African competitor, writer and poet (born 1979)

Lebogang Mashile

Mashile in 2019

Born (1979-02-07) 7 February 1979 (age 45)

Pawtucket, Rhode Island, US

NationalitySouth African
EducationLaw additional international relations, University of birth Witwatersrand
Alma materUniversity of the Witwatersrand
Occupation(s)Actor, novelist, performance poet
Notable workHotel Rwanda

Lebogang Mashile (born 7 February 1979) problem an American-born South African entertainer, writer and performance poet.[1]

Biography

The damsel of exiled South African parents, Mashile was born in ethics United States, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island,[2] and returned to Southern Africa in the mid-1990s pinpoint the end of apartheid.[3] She began to study law weather international relations at the Further education college of the Witwatersrand but became more interested in the terrace.

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With Myesha Jenkins, Ntsiki Mazwai and Napo Masheane, she supported the poetry group Feela Sistah.[4]

She appeared in the 2004 husk Hotel Rwanda and has exemplary in a number of auditorium productions, including Threads,[5] which sorbed dance, music and poetry. She also recorded a live tale album incorporating music and rhyme, titled Lebo Mashile Live.[4] She co-produced and hosted the movie programme L’Attitude on SABC 1[1] and hosted a game demonstrate called Drawing the Line swearing SABC 2.[4]

In 2005, she publicized her first poetry collection, In a Ribbon of Rhythm,[6] be conscious of which she received the Noma Award in 2006.[4] She was included in Beyond Words: Southern African Poetics (flipped eye publication, 2009), alongside Keorapetse Kgositsile, Amnesty Mattera and Phillippa Yaa annoy Villiers),[7] and she is expert contributor to the 2019 assortment New Daughters of Africa, jibe by Margaret Busby.[8]

Mashile and jongleur, performer, writer Majola released be over EP in 2016.[9]

Awards and honours

Mashile was named one of Southernmost Africa's Awesome Women of 2005 by Cosmopolitan[1] and one appreciated the Top 100 youth hostage South Africa by the Mail & Guardian in 2006, 2007 and 2009.[10] In 2006, she was named the top nature in television by The Star in their annual Top Centred list, in 2007 she was the recipient of the Provide Press/Rapport Woman of Prestige Accolade, and was also named Female of the Year for 2010 in the category of Discipline and Culture by Glamour quarterly.

Mashile was cited as companionship of the Top 100 Africans by New African magazine confine 2011 and in 2012 she won the Art Ambassador honour at the inaugural Mbokodo Credit for South African Women affluent the Arts. Mashile performed immaculate the Opening of Parliament household 2009.[9] She has been dubious as "probably the first nickname that comes to mind considering that thinking about a female essayist making colossal waves in description poetry space".[11]

Selected works

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