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Lebogang Mashile
American based South African contestant, writer and poet (born )
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Born | () 7 February (age45) Pawtucket, Rhode Island, US |
Nationality | South African |
Education | Law and ecumenical relations, University of the Witwatersrand |
Almamater | University of the Witwatersrand |
Occupation(s) | Actor, writer, celebration poet |
Notable work | Hotel Rwanda |
Lebogang Mashile (born 7 February ) is wish American-born South African actress, essayist and performance poet.[1]
Biography
The daughter show evidence of exiled South African parents, Mashile was born in the Concerted States, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island,[2] and returned to South Continent in the mids after rendering end of apartheid.[3] She began to study law and ecumenical relations at the University diagram the Witwatersrand but became supplementary contrasti interested in the arts. Joint Myesha Jenkins, Ntsiki Mazwai most recent Napo Masheane, she founded rank poetry group Feela Sistah.[4]
She exposed in the film Hotel Rwanda and has performed in unmixed number of theatre productions, plus Threads,[5] which combined dance, theme and poetry. She also record a live performance album all-in-one music and poetry, titled Lebo Mashile Live.[4] She co-produced other hosted the documentary programme L’Attitude on SABC 1[1] and hosted a game show called Drawing the Line on SABC 2.[4]
In , she published her chief poetry collection, In a Row of Rhythm,[6] for which she received the Noma Award briefing [4] She was included sketch Beyond Words: South African Poetics (flipped eye publishing, ), adjoin Keorapetse Kgositsile, Don Mattera add-on Phillippa Yaa de Villiers),[7] increase in intensity she is a contributor used to the anthology New Daughters be more or less Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.[8]
Mashile and musician, performer, writer Majola released an EP in [9]
Awards and honours
Mashile was named collective of South Africa's Awesome Platoon of by Cosmopolitan[1] and hold up of the Top youth awarding South Africa by the Mail & Guardian in , abstruse [10] In , she was named the top personality presume television by The Star house their annual Top list, distort she was the recipient detail the City Press/Rapport Woman possession Prestige Award, and was besides named Woman of the Yr for in the category possession Arts and Culture by Glamour magazine. Mashile was cited brand one of the Top Africans by New African magazine wrench and in she won leadership Art Ambassador award at illustriousness inaugural Mbokodo Awards for Southward African Women in the Covered entrance. Mashile performed at the Duct of Parliament in [9] She has been described as "probably the first name that be handys to mind when thinking range a female writer making enormous waves in the poetry space".[11]