Lebo mashile biography for kids

Mashile attended Wits University in Johannesburg, where she studied law and international relations.

Lebo mashile biography for kids

While living there, she discovered Johannesburg’s underground poetry scene and began to perform. To Mashile, art held deep potential for regenerative change in the wake of her country’s years of social struggles, so she changed course and determined to be a poet.

She and fellow South African women poets Myesha Jenkins, Ntsiki Mazwai, and Napo Masheane founded Feela Sistah! Spoken Word Collective in 2003.

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Formed in response to the women’s shared frustration at their exclusion from male-run creative spaces, the group proved to be a space for creative growth for its members, and soon rose to national prominence. In 2004, Mashile was nominated for the Daimler-Chrysler South Africa Poetry Award; that year also saw her debut as a film actress, in Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda, and her performance at the presidential inauguration of Thabo Mbeki.

In 2005, Mashile published he